KEHS Exam content info

[Thegodfather]

Parking always available in Oakfield road and Eastern road Selly park. 5 minute walk to the schools. And if you are desperate any of the roads in selly oak if you don't mind student rubbish & broken glass everywhere...

[rah_b92]

I work at the University and avoid driving there if humanly possible... That said, there is a new multi-storey (the "North East Car Park") on Pritchatts Road (just next to 52 Pritchatts Rd) which theoretically replaces the old one by where the Gun Barrels was. I've never been into it! (On the very rare occasions when I have to drive in to work, I'm early enough to get a space right outside my building.)

Campus parking info, for what it's worth, is at https://intranet.birmingham.ac.uk/has/s ... rking.aspx - visitor info right at the bottom. The visitor prices were a bit of a shock!

[Teacosy]

Consider using public transport on the exam days too. School is very accessible by bus and train.

[mike1880]

Which schools' papers would be more similar to KEHS do you think?

Five years ago the answer I got was as described in this thread, whether that advice is still sound I don't know, but I don't remember seeing anything more recent:

http://www.elevenplusexams.co.uk/forum/ ... se#p270604

I'd suggest you do the Dulwich College papers, then MGS if you have time, because those are the ones with answers (for maths - I don't remember ever seeing answers to an English paper other than MGS paper 1/section A) and the whole value of the exercise is to go through the answers afterwards to develop understanding of how to tackle the longer question types. If you use the MGS papers remember the advice on the web site about what constitutes a respectable score (and make sure your child knows it too)!

[KenR]

Solihull School sample papers are quite good

http://www.solsch.org.uk/page/?title=Sa ... rs&pid=160

Also see top post - old quarantined post by Sean_UK on last year's content

[DIY Mum]

This is an old post from 2012/13 feedback. The poem featured in the actual exam and isn't a specimen question.

From memory, day 1: English comprehension- a passage about a captain (ship and crew members) during a storm. As part of the composition, you had to write a diary piece from the captain's point of view. Maths was fairly easy and VR.

Day 2: Fairly challenging maths, VR ok. English comprehension: a poem titled 'The Cold Woman' (see below). Tricky words were defined for dc, e.g. 'pinions'.
A short composition followed and was based on the poem. Children had to complete their own stanza at the end.

The Cold-Woman
by: Arthur Guiterman (1871-1943)

A NAVAJO LEGEND OF WINTER

NAYENGEZANI, Destroyer of Wizards,
Bearing the war club, the quiver and bow,
Sang as he strode through the roar of the blizzards
Over the road to the Mountain of Snow--


"There dwells the Cold-Woman, high on her barrow,
Sending the Winter to fetter the land;
Her shall I slay with the flint-headed arrow,
Freeing my race from her evil command!"


Deserts he traversed through perils uncounted,
Fearless of weapons, regardless of spells;
Threading the ice-cumbered cañon, he mounted
Clear to the crag where the Storm-Brewer dwells.


Wrinkled and agèd, unfed, unbefriended,
Lacking the lodge fire's comforting glow,
Shivered the Cold-Woman, tempest attended,
Shaking the robes of her pallet of snow.



Swept in a cloud through her frigid dominions,
Vague in the mists that enveloped her form,
Snow buntings fluttered on eddying pinions--
Spies for the Winter and heralds of Storm.


Loud spoke the Hero: "Thy harsh rule is ended!
Cruel my errand! The Spring to restore,
Ready to slay thee my strong bow is bended;
Men from thy rigors shall suffer no more!"


Tossing her tresses, she answered in sorrow,
"Loosen the arrow and slay, if thou wilt,
Blindly triumphant, forgetting the morrow!--
Mine be the triumph and thine be the guilt,


"When all the prairies, the forests, and mountains
Parch in a Summer that findeth no close!
When all the rivers and nourishing fountains
Fail for the lack of my bountiful snows!


"When not a breath of my blustering season,
Health-giving, freshens a pitiless sky!
When those thou lovest, undone by thy treason,
Thirsting shall perish and fevered shall die!"

Low spake the Hero, unnocking his arrow:
"Mine is the folly! Thou, Mother, art wise.
Rule as thou wilt from thy snow-shrouded barrow,
Sender of blessings that come in disguise!"


Nayengezani strode down through the ranges
Homeward, untainted with death-doing wrong,
Blessing the Year for its glorious changes,
Weaving his thought in a burden of song:


"Dark is the East Wind and yellow the West Wind!
Blue is the South Wind and white is the north!
Who hath the wisdom that knoweth the best wind--
Save the Creator Who sendeth it forth!"

sorry, can't recall the questions that went with it.

[crazycrofter]

Thanks everyone, that's really helpful!

[wildwest]

that is brilliant recall DIYmum. Just to be doubley sure, do you mean the children had two tasks with regards to the poem,

1. had to write a stanza of the poem to complete it?
2. answer questions based on the poem and the composition


thanks for your help.

[DIY Mum]

Hi Ww,

It's yes to both.
Did get some more info from dd2 last night which may or may not be useful to you. If so, just send me a pm.

[stevew61]

A question has been raised about copyright issues but on this occasion looks ok, bet DIY Mum knew that.

Or more likely it was chosen as out of copyright.

1(a) How long does UK copyright protection last?
Copyright in the work of European authors who died after 1st January 1945 lasts until 70 years from the end of
the year the author died (post mortem auctoris: pma). Until 1st January 1996, copyright lasted until 50 years pma.
For a work of joint authorship, i.e. a work by two or more authors in which the contributions of the authors are
not discrete, the period of protection runs from the death of the author who dies last.

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