As a parent, please encourage and support your child to get into a regular study routine at home. We recommend that our pupils’ study around one hour every day to prepare for their exams.

To help your child reach their potential in their GCSEs, we have created a GCSE Revision and Independent Study booklet. In this booklet, each subject area has put together a summary of what your child could do to support their own revision.

Information includes:

• How pupils are assessed in each subject
• What revision activities your child must be completing each week to prepare for their exams?
• What extra revision activities your child could be completing each week to prepare for their exams?
• How pupils can get help and support

All Year 10 and 12 students will sit Trial Examinations in many of their subjects between

In February and June. Trial exams are really important for both students and teachers. They will identify strengths and areas to develop, which will be used to plan future lessons and interventions, to support your child fulfil their potential in their GCSE exams next year.

Candidates requesting a Review of Results, or copy of their exam script need to provide written consent and full payment before requests can be processed. If a review of results is requested, then it is possible for marks to be lowered, remain the same or increase. This can lead to a lower overall grade, or the same grade or a higher grade.

Any enquiries about results for internal candidates have to be made to the exam board through the school.

Before any enquiry can be made, the candidate:

• has to seek agreement from the school that this is an appropriate action
• needs to sign a consent form
• pay the appropriate cost

The deadlines for Post-Results services are:

• Priority GCE (only where a university place is at risk): 21.08.26
• Priority GCSE: 04.09.26
• Non-priority: 25.09.26

The costs and consent form can be found here.

Requests, consent, and payment need to be with Mr C Daws (cdaws@purbeck.wessex.ac) before the school deadlines. Cheques made payable to Wessex Multi Academy Trust.

Please read the information regarding retaking public examinations below.

It will be at the discretion of the Headteacher as to whether candidates will be able to retake exams at the Purbeck School.

Please read, complete and return this form to our Exams Officer cdaws@purbeck.wessex.ac.

Resit Examination Entry Form

Information for candidates:

• Coursework
• Non-exam assessment
• On screen tests
• Written exams
• Exam checklist – Preparing to sit your exams
• Privacy notice
• Social media information
• Exam room poster – Unauthorised Items
• Exam room poster – Warning to candidates

If a student is taken ill before an examination, suffer bereavement or other trauma, be taken ill during the examination itself or otherwise disadvantaged or disturbed during an examination, then it is the student/parent/carer’s responsibility to alert the school, the Examinations Office, or the examination invigilator, to that effect.

The student must support any special consideration claim with appropriate evidence within three days of the examination, e.g. a letter from the student’s doctor.

The Examinations Officer will then forward a completed special consideration form to the relevant awarding body within seven days of the examination.

If an unforeseen event affects the running of an exam, e.g. a prolonged fire alarm or unexpected interruption; this instance should be reported to the Headteacher. It is the responsibility of the Exams Officer to apply for special consideration to the relevant exam board, in such an eventuality.