Year 11: lessons open to try
The first lesson of each learning area is open to try, in full, with no account. Sit beside your learner for one and see how ParkSyde teaches: a worked example first, then practice with help, a quick check, and their own task to finish.
English · about 105 minutes
Every Text Is a Made Thing
From the unit Perspectives in Play: Texts in Conversation
We are learning to analyse how texts construct — rather than reflect — perspectives of people, places and ideas, and how those constructions position audiences.
Start this lesson →Mathematics · about 90 minutes
Compound Interest: Money That Earns Money
From the unit The Real-World Toolkit: Money, Models, Matrices and Data
We are learning how compound interest actually works — as repeated multiplication, not a magic formula — so we can compare investments and sense-check any figure a bank shows us.
Start this lesson →Science · about 140 minutes
The Border Guard: Membranes, Transport and What It Costs to Stay Different
From the unit Biology Units 1–2, starter unit: Cells, Systems, and Staying Alive
We are learning to explain the fluid mosaic membrane as the structure that makes a cell a controlled system, to distinguish passive from active transport by whether the movement runs with or against a gradient, and to account for the ATP a cell spends holding itself different from its surroundings.
Start this lesson →Humanities and Social Sciences · about 100 minutes
Dangerous on Paper: The Rights of Man, Nationalism and the Historian's Toolkit
From the unit Ideas, Movements and the Historian's Craft
We are learning how Enlightenment ideas — the rights of man, popular sovereignty, nationalism — drove the making of the modern world, and how to interrogate any source like a working historian: origin, purpose, audience, reliability.
Start this lesson →The Arts · about 105 minutes
Art as Lens: One Word, a Thousand Bodies of Work
From the unit The Lens and the Code: Senior Visual Art
We are learning how senior artists develop an individual focus from open stimulus — using personal and contemporary contexts as lenses to observe and reinterpret the world — and why the lens, not technical realism, is what senior art values.
Start this lesson →Technologies · about 120 minutes
The Machine Does Exactly What You Wrote: Data, Control, Functions and the Trace Table
From the unit Digital Solutions Units 1–2, starter unit: Creating with Code, Designing for People
We are learning to design algorithms at senior depth — choosing data types deliberately, controlling flow with sequence, selection and iteration, decomposing into functions with defined inputs and outputs, and operating on arrays — and to prove an algorithm's behaviour before implementation by desk-checking it with a formal trace table.
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When you want the rest of Year 11
Every other lesson in Year 11, and the learning record for your registration, come with a plan. A family's first plan starts with a week to try it, and nothing is charged until day 8.