6th Form Resources
The resources on this page are specific to Sixth Form Students. They are a mixture of websites and reading lists. You will also find useful resources, including lots of advice for help with your mental health, on the other Online Resources page here.
Business
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Tutor2u is an online educational publisher. They provide a comprehensive range of support resources and services to teachers, students, parents and other educational communities. |
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Hodder Education Business Review. You will need to subscribe to this. There is a discount for PHGS students, please inform them that the school is already a member. |
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BBC Business News. |
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ITV Business News. |
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Sky Business News. |
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The Guardian Newspaper. |
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Watch these films:
The Social Network Fyre: The greatest party that never happened Rogue Trader |
Computer Science
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Excellent resource with transition links from GCSE and a growing list of resources for the OCR specification. |
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MIT have made a number of Computer Science courses free to access online. This provides an amazing opportunity to access resources from one of the most highly regarded Universities in the world. Each course has videos as well as lecture notes and other resources. |
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Free access to resources with a mix of articles, visualisations, quizzes, and coding challenges. |
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Tutorials, plus access to tutorials for a range of programming languages. |
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Python tutorials. |
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JavaScript overview, theory and examples. |
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Object Oriented programming in Python. Tutorials and example code. |
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General reading with up-to-date news. |
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The Independent Computer Science News. |
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BBC Technology News. |
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Wired Programming News. |
Design and Technology
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Food Technology. The articles are very good and they debunk myths that are published in the papers and online. |
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Food Technology Reading List. Bender, D. (2002). An Introduction to Nutrition and Metabolism (3rd Ed). Oxford, UK: Taylor and Francis Ltd. Brown, A.C. (2010). Understanding Food: Principles and Preparation (4th Ed). USA: Wadsworth Publishing. Campbell J (et al) (2011). Practical Cookery Level 3. Hodder Education. Cesarani V (2002). Advanced Practical Cookery: A Textbook for Education and Industry. Hodder Education. Drummond, K.E. and Brefere, L.M. (2009). Nutrition for Foodservice and Culinary Professionals (7th Ed). Hoboken, NJ, USA. John Wiley and Sons Foskett D, Cesarani V, (2007). Cesarani and Kinton’s The Theory of Catering Dynamic Learning Food Standards Agency. (2008). Manual of Nutrition (11 th Ed). London, UK: Stationary Office. Jeukendrup, A and Gleeson, M. (2004). Sport Nutrition: An Introduction to Energy Production and Performance. Leeds, UK: Human Kinetics Smith, M. and Morton, D. (2001). The Digestive System: Systems of the Body. London, UK. |
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Online resources to support Design learning. |
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Online Design Magazine. |
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Design Technology Reading List. Fashionopolis: The Price of Fast Fashion - and the Future of Clothes (Paperback). Little Book of Chanel (Hardback). The Fashion Book Hardcover. 25 Mar 2016. The Design of Everyday Things (The MIT Press) Paperback – 23 Dec 2013 by Donald A Norman. James Dyson's History of Great Inventions Paperback – 12 Sep 2002 |
| You can find more online resources for exam classes here. |
Drama
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Stream your favourite Broadway hits Free 7 day trial, subscription afterwards. |
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Sonnets read by Patrick Stewart, on Facebook. |
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Theatre news, review, interviews and jobs. |
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Website for the National Theatre, including free plays streaming every Thursday on YouTube. Also, check the Drama pages of Firefly for further National Theatre resources. |
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DV8 physical theatre. Some work available for free, some via subscription (advisory of 16+). |
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Theatre as Sign-System: A Semiotics of Text and Performance. Authors: Elaine Aston and George Savona. ISBN-10: 0415049326
The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance Authors: P Allain and J Harvie ISBN-10: 0415636310
Theory for Performance: A Student’s Guide Author: P Auslander ISBN-10: 0415974534
Practice as Research: Approaches to Creative Arts Enquiry Authors: E Barrett and B Bolt ISBN-10: 1501357956
The Empty Space Author: Peter Brook ISBN-10: 0689705581
Towards a Poor Theatre Author: Jerzy Growtowski ISBN-10: 0413349101
The Director’s Craft Author: Katie Mitchell ISBN-10: 0415404398 |
Economics
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Tutor2u is an online educational publisher. They provide a comprehensive range of support resources and services to teachers, students, parents and other educational communities. |
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Bloomberg Financial News. |
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The Bank of England website. |
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The New Economics Foundation works with people igniting change from below and combines this with rigorous research to fight for change at the top. |
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Wider reading. |
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Tim Harford is an author, columnist for the Financial Times and presenter of Radio 4's "More or Less". |
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Radio Four's "Pop Up Economics" programme. |
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BBC Economy News.
You can also follow Robert Peston or Stephanie Flanders on Twitter or Facebook. |
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Wider reading. |
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There are some really high quality and very educational films to watch – many can be found on Netflix. Too Big to Fail The Big Short Margin Call A Beautiful Mind |
English
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For English Language. Students search an article / pick a magazine to read and eventually will be asked to log in, as follows: Username: Prince Henry Password: Archive |
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For English Language and English Literature. Username: Englishotley Password: phgsenglish |
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Classic Literature - 50 good books to read before you die. |
Geography
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Wider reading in Geography. |
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Health and Social Care
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General |
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Textbooks M.Billingham et al, (2016) Pearson Btec National Health and Social Care Student Book 1, PEARSON, London ISBN 9781292126012 Revision guides B.Baker et al, (2017) BTEC National Health and Social Care Revision Guide PEARSON, London ISBN: 9781292230443 B.Baker et al, (2017) BTEC National Health and Social Care Workbook PEARSON, London ISBN: 9781292299082 |
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Unit 1 - Human lifespan Development |
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Social disengagement theory. |
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Activity theory. |
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Growing Up Poor: Britain’s Breadline Kids |
Unit 2 - Working in Health and Social Care |
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Job roles in Health Care. |
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Job roles in Social Care. |
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Panorama Crisis in Care / Undercover Hospital Abuse Scandal Dispatches Can You Trust Your Surgeon |
Unit 5 - Meeting Individual Care and Support Needs |
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The Guardian website contains a useful health section containing articles and opinion pieces. |
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Panorama Crisis in Care / Undercover Hospital Abuse Scandal Dispatches Britain’s Pensioner Care Scandal |
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Aisha – older female with vascular dementia Video – Elizabeth is missing
Billy – Young male who is homeless Video – Love and Drugs on the Street |
Unit 11 - Psychological perspectives |
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For the following perspectives:
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Stacy Dooley On the Psych Ward Dispatches Young, British and Depressed / Wasting Away: The Truth About Anorexia |
History
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| See the History section of the Online Resources section here. Also see the History FIrefly pages. |
Law
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Wider reading on all aspects of Law. |
Maths
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Choose your level, watch the videos and be on the way to success with ExamSolutions. |
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Solution Banks and Revision Courses. |
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A level revision and past papers. |
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A magazine for the mathematically curious. |
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Plus is an online magazine which aims to introduce readers to the beauty and the practical applications of mathematics. |
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The Wikipedia Maths Portal. |
Media
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Long form TV Drama - watch the following series: Mr Robot House of Cards Homeland Stranger Things The Killing Trapped Borgen Deutschland 83 |
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Spend some time reading the Big Issue webpage. Look at past front covers of The Big Issue – find them by doing a google image search. |
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Read The Guardian and follow their Twitter feed. |
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Read The Daily Mail and follow their Twitter feed. |
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BBC News. |
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Explore websites that advertise male grooming products
Explore websites advertising energy drinks Lucozade – look at sport and energy pages
Explore websites for homeless charities |
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Watch these music videos. Mainstream Corinne Bailey Rae – Stop Where You Are Massive Attack – Unfinished Sympathy Alternative |
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Read articles about the success of Minecraft and what is going on in the gaming industry at the moment. There are loads more out there! |
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LIsten to the BBC Radio 1 Breakfast Show. |
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Read articles about how films are marketed and articles about success of Disney as a global media conglomerate.
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MFL
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Key Stage 5 students have a username and password. Students can access exam style questions and additional activities from the textbook without being set them. |
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Vocab learning - search for specific courses to match the courses being studied. Some staff have set up groups for this already for students. There are also learning sets on here for the films and books studied by students in KS5. |
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Lots of online exercises on different topics and grammar points in all 3 languages. |
French |
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Students are studying a film and a book. Film: La Haine - Mathieu Kassovitz. Any articles / online material related to this would be great background reading. Book: Un Sac de Billes - Joseph Joffo. Any articles / online material related to this would be great background reading. |
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Website filled with news articles / videos and activities for French students so perfect for A Level students. Linked to this is https://soundcloud.com/1jour1actu with all the audio files on. |
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An audio clip of the news roundup for the day, published a day later, with transcript with key words translated into English. |
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Links to free content in newspapers / magazines published in French. |
German |
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Students are studying a film and a book. Film: Lola Rennt – Tom Tykwer. Any articles / online material related to this would be great background reading. Book: Der Vorleser – Bernhard Schlink. Any articles / online material related to this would be great background reading. |
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This German website is in multiple languages, including English, and has links in the Learn German section to current affairs articles, the slowly spoken news, reading and listening activities linked to topics on the A Level syllabus and lots of materials for reading around the topics studied. |
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Short German news articles with the option to listen / follow and download the audio. |
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100 second video of the daily news roundup. Really useful to keep up to date with what is happening in Germany with video. |
Spanish |
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Students are studying a film and a book. Film: Pan's Labyrinth - Guillermo del Toro. Any articles / online material related to this would be great background reading. Book: Como Agua Para Chocolate - Laura Esquivel. Any articles / online material related to this would be great background reading. |
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An audio clip of the news roundup for the day. published a day later with transcript, with key words translated into English. |
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A BBC news website in easier to understand Spanish with links to stories and articles from the Spanish speaking world |
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Spanish newspaper, online version. |
Music
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PHGS on Music First. |
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AS and A Level Music Teaching resources. |
Philosophy and Ethics
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Philosophy |
● General Philosophy Panpsycast podcast. ● Peter Vardy ‘The Puzzle of God’ (book). ● Peter Vardy ‘The Puzzle of Christianity’ (book). ● Eduqas AS Philosophy of Religions & Religion and Ethics textbook (book). |
Challenges to religious belief - the problem of evil and suffering |
● Tsunami (where was God?) – A channel 4 programme that examines how the 2004 boxing day Tsunami both challenged and strengthened people’s faith in God Part 1 / Part 2 ● Alvin Platinga on the free will defence. ● Christians explain why they believe God allows evil and suffering. ● Phillip Zimbardo on the psychology of evil. ● TED talk - In the days following the tragic South Asian tsunami of 2004, the Rev. Tom Honey pondered the question, How could a loving God have done this? Here is his answer. ● Stephen Hawkins on the universe – good general links to how our universe began. |
Arguments for the existence of God |
● Alvin Platinga on the existence of God. ● Leonard Susskind: Is the universe fine tuned for life? Good link to the teleological argument. ● The genius of Charles Darwin – Richard Dawkins explores evolution. Good link to the teleological argument. ● Kalam cosmological argument debate: William Lane Craig and Sean Carroll. ● Sean Carroll – did the universe have a beginning? Good link to the cosmological argument. ● TED talk – Hidden miracles of the natural world. Good link to the teleological argument. ● Bertrand Russell and Frederick Copleston debate the cosmological argument. |
Religious belief as a product of the human mind |
● The big think – The brain creates religion. |
Challenges to Theist arguments for the existence of God |
● Richard Dawkins: Biologist Richard Dawkins launches into a full-on appeal for atheists to make public their beliefs and to aggressively fight the incursion of religion into politics and education. ● Richard Dawkins: Interview and podcast on the ‘God delusion’. ● Alister McGrath: Interview on the ‘Dawkins Delusion’ and reasons for theism. ● TED talk - What aspects of religion should atheists (respectfully) adopt? Alain de Botton suggests a "religion for atheists" - call it Atheism 2.0 - that incorporates religious forms and traditions to satisfy our human need for connection, ritual and transcendence. ● Stephen Fry on the importance of ‘unbelief’. ● Daniel Dennett: Arguments for atheism. |
Religious experience |
● The story of God – Morgan Freeman explores miracles. ● BBC radio – Discussion of William James on ‘The Varieties of Religious experience’. |
Ethics |
● General Ethics Panpsycast podcast. ● Peter Vardy ‘The Puzzle of Ethics’ (book). ● Eduqas AS Philosophy of Religions & Religion and Ethics textbook (book). |
Ethical thought |
● Robert Adams’ Modified Divine Command theory. ● A short lecture on Ethical Egoism and the main criticisms. |
Deontological ethics |
● Aquinas Natural Law – uses slightly different terms to explain the Primary Precepts but still worth watching for the overall theory. ● A good summary of John Finnis’ version of Natural Law. ● Teleological ethics · J.S.Mill essay on Utilitarianism. ● Jeremy Bentham, ‘An Introduction to the Principles of Morality’. ● Utilitarianism – great introduction from Crash Course philosophy. ● Article about Robinson’s book ‘Honest to God’ which started thinking about Situation Ethics. ● Slideshow covering Fletcher’s Working and Fundamental Principles and the 4 examples he uses to illustrate these. |
Buddhism |
● General Buddhism Access to Insight / Clear Vision Trust ● WJEC/Eduqas AS Buddhism Textbook |
Religious Figures and Sacred Texts |
● Animation covering events in the life of the Buddha. ● BBC Documentary about the Life of the Buddha. ● Podcast introducing the Pali Canon. ● Range of information and videos about Thich Nhat Hanh. ● Official website of the Dalai Lama. ● Thanissaro Bhikkhu’s introduction to the Patimokkha. ● Article about the impact of the Heart Sutra. ● Podcast explaining the meaning of the parable of the Burning House from the Lotus Sutra. |
Religious Concepts and Religious Life |
● Use the general websites given above. |
Religion and Society |
● Detailed review and analysis of Stephen Batchelor’s Confessions of a Buddhist Atheist. ● David Brazier on why Buddhism is a religion. ● Website of Joanna Macy – socially engaged Buddhism practitioner and environmental campaigner. ● Lecture on the history of women in Buddhism. ● Keynote speech given by Rita Gross – noted author on Feminism in Buddhism. |
Physical Education & BTEC Sport
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A level PE students will need to email Mr Curtis to request to be added to the A level PE course. BTEC Sport students will need to email Mr Hyam to request to be added to the BTEC Sport course. |
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Useful website that covers a variety of content from the A Level PE course. |
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Useful website which covers a broad range of topics for the A Level PE course. |
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Useful to keep up to date with developments in the sporting world, for both A Level and BTEC Sport Courses. |
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Useful for Leadership and Stress management ideas in BTEC Sport - Unit 6 - Sports Psychology. |
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A Level PE |
The following books are approved by AQA and Mr Curtis would recommend that A Level PE students purchase one/two of these:
AQA A-level PE (Year 1 and Year 2) Paperback – 27 Sep 2019
(This book has been more recently published and combines the two books below into one, but includes more practise questions)
AQA A-level PE 1
AQA A-level PE 2
These two guides are more concise for students to use as a study aid: AQA A Level Physical Education Student Guide 1: Factors affecting participation in physical activity and sport.
AQA A Level Physical Education Student Guide 2: Factors affecting optimal performance in physical activity and sport.
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BTEC Sport |
The following books are approved by Pearson and Mr Hyam would recommend that BTEC students purchase one/two of these: BTEC Nationals Sport Student Book 1 + Activebook
BTEC Nationals Sport Student Book 2 + Activebook
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Politics
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Online News (some have a payment fire walls): UK
US https://www.washingtonpost.com/ https://www.newyorker.com/news https://edition.cnn.com/politics |
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Hodder Education Politics Review. You will need to subscribe to this. There is a discount for PHGS students, please inform them that the school is already a member. |
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A comprehensive reading list can be found at the AQA website. |
Psychology
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A Level Psychology revision. |
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A Level Psychology revision. |
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A Level Teaching and Learning resources. |
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