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Drive to Success – Summer 2020

I can… Inspirational story of an “ I can approach to a task, situation and life” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaZwpD1Paag https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2Z4EwGiNJ0

Your preparation toolkits

Weeks Life cycle 520 School 18 What’s Left 2600 working life Weeks 1000 retirement School What’s Left working life retirement

Points to Prom 2019 – 20 …Inspiring Learners For Their Future

Why do you want to get your best possible exam results?

Year 12 - Words of Wisdom If you know that you have done everything you could have done when you start that exam and when you get your results, you won’t have any regrets. That’s what pushed me to work my hardest throughout the year. I didn’t want to regret not preparing myself as well as I could if I was disappointed by my results. Now , I don’t have any regrets and am very proud of my GCSE results.

20 th August 2020 RESULTS DAY 19 th June 2020 PROM May 2020 Leavers Assembly May – June 2020 Summer Examinations 26 th March Year 11 Subject Surgery Evening 24 th April Option Subject 21st January Support Day Core Subject Support Day 3 rd – 14 th February Year 11 PPEs 5 th December Revision Skills Day

“It’s only by concentrating, sticking to the question, being patient, letting all the parts of my mind come into play, that I arrive at an original idea. By giving my brain a chance to make associations, draw connections, take me by surprise” — William Deresiewicz

Why? • To Prepare for assessment week • To reduce them feeling of being overwhelmed • To prepare for what comes later in life • Transitional Skills How? • Thinking A lot • Active – Kinaesthetic/Visual/Auditory • Environment – Short Bursts/Easy to maintain • Specific – Goal Driven What? • Flash cards with questions on • Mind maps • Exam questions • Tassomai/my maths etc • Decision trees • Stories for meory • Posters • Teach friends/quizzing

RAG Rating or Traffic Lighting your work and revision notes

BENCHMARKING

1. Reduce the information down into the 3. Transform: key points. change the information into drawings. Art work NOT 2. Summarise required. the key points (write in the boxes). Your visual memory is stronger than your written memory.

CUE CARDS

Cue Cards eg Mind Map

English Example!

Taking Breaks to Re-engage Brain • 1-2-3 challenge, standing up with partner- engages an refocuses mind. • When revising after 30mins, have a break- do something different- even if just for 5-10mins

How long should We revise for? Students working without breaks Learning 1 2 3 4 Time (hours)

Breaks are important! To take breaks = remember more! Learning Breaktime! Breaktime! Breaktime! Breaktime! 1 2 3 4 Time (hours)

Breaks are important! Maximise Your Learning • Spaced learning • 3 x 20mins- same info but different techniques used for each • Read- highlight • Transform- do something with it eg Cue card • Recall eg Test yourself • Not all strategies for everyone- Use what works for you

Breaks are important! Other TIPS Research shows that testing yourself is essential for long – term memory

Brain Brain Friendl iendly y Re Revision vision Order/Sequence Reading Out Loud Have a look through your Read your revision notes out loud to a particular notes/books and order or rhythm – this could be sequence the notes. Place set by music playing in them in a logical sequence the background or so you can see how things tapping your foot or by progress. You may find a walking calmly and more logical way of steadily. This is a sort of seeing things. walk and talk.

Brain Brain Friendl iendly y Re Revision vision Q & A Change key words in the topic Devise questions and answers for pictures or symbols or about a topic for other abbreviations and use those people and quiz each in your revision other. You could think of doing a “Who wants to be a millionaire” game where the questions are graded according to the difficulty you choose.

Brain Friendl Brain F iendly y Re Revision vision Questions Post-its Ask questions before you revise Write information on post-it anything. Think about the topic notes and place them on the to be studied and take some wall, door, large sheets of time out to think about the paper etc. You can then questions you would like to have rearrange them according to some-one answer for you. Write a variety of ideas: them down and as you read • Group various things together through your notes jot down any • Organise them into what you answers you find. The brain likes looking for know and don’t know – rearrange answers. Go and get help for any as you learn more answers you do not find. • Follow trends or themes

Brain Friendl Brain iendly y Re Revision vision recordings Visuals Make a tape for yourself to revise Make good use of • from. It could be you reading your drawings /diagrams in your notes out loud. It could be you revision. singing your notes. Use different colours. • It could be you reading and then Replace key words /ideas • stopping to summarise what you have /people/places with read (key words, ideas, phrases, pictures. quotations) Create and put posters up or • around your home. Asking questions on what you have covered. Listen to the tape as you lie in bed, walk to school, travel on the bus.

Brain Brain Friendl iendly y Re Revision vision Highlighters Underlining As you read through your notes  As you read through the use different coloured work in your exercise book highlighters to pick out key underline key words. words /themes/ideas/ points  You could come up with a etc. You could try a different predicted list before you colour for each theme or topic. start or you could make a list There are revision websites of the key words at the end. where you can read revision  You could underline in notes and highlight as you go. different colours, patterns You can use very small post-its to highlight things as you go or lines like wiggly, thick etc. along.

Brain Brain Friendl iendly y Re Revision vision Make lists Use Colour Bullet point them  Your brain just adores colour Or and will remember things much more easily if you use 1. number them it. Or E.g. put all the important a) letter them words in red , the important According to what suits you concepts in green, important best. Numbers will definitely dates in purple etc. suit those who are more comfortable using their left/logical, side of the brain.

Brain Friendl Brain F iendly y Re Revision vision Reward yourself Re-write the topic in Once you have learned your own words. something give yourself a treat. Go out with Find out why you are some friends for an learning it — then make it hour, watch TV but only interesting once you have reached for you. your revision target.

Helpful tips Helpful tips. On the da On the day: y: Make sure you have everything you need. Make the most of your short term memory. Learn the 10  A watch most important facts whilst  Pens, pencils (spare or waiting to go into the exam sharpener), and write them down as soon  ruler as you are allowed to pick up  Calculator if needed and a pen. allowed (spare battery)  A pen you can write with quickly, comfortably and legibly

In the exam.. In the exam.. – Read: – Time yourself  - the instructions. Divide the time appropriately  - all of the questions before between the number of you choose which to do. questions you have to do and watch the clock to stick to  - each question carefully. this. Do not panic if you run out of time – but make sure you round off your answer even if facts are missing – conclusions are worth a lot.