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Drive to Success – Summer 2019

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

I can…

Extra-ordinary....

“The difference between ordinary and extra-ordinary is so

• ften just simply that little word – extra. And for me, I had

always grown up with the belief that if someone succeeds it is because they are brilliant or talented or just better than me… and the more of these words I heard, the smaller I always felt! But the truth is often very different… and for me to learn that

• rdinary me can achieve something extra-ordinary by giving

that little bit extra, when everyone else gives up, meant the world to me and I really clung to it…”

Bear Grylls Adventurer Survival Expert

David Brailsford Quote ” it’s important to understand the ‘aggregation of marginal gains’. Put simply….how small improvements in a number of different aspects

• f what we do can have a

huge impact to the overall performance of individuals and teams.”

• Eg. 1 mark more in separate

10 questions in an 80 mark paper (30 questions) = 10 Marks total

Your preparation toolkits

Life cycle

Weeks School

520

What’s Left

19

working life

2600

retirement

1000

Weeks

School What’s Left working life retirement

…Inspiring Learners For Their Future

Passport to Prom 2018-19

What would make you jump for joy August 2019?

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

Year 12 Words of Wisdom

Take this year day by day and don't over stress yourselves. It will take a toll on you and you may start to feel like giving up. When exam season comes around, don't stay up late revising, be in bed by ten and then when you wake up, have a shower and feel refreshed and ready for the day. You can't perform well if you aren't taking care

• f yourselves.

My top tip is don’t stress and try your best.

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.

6th December Revision Skills Day 23rd January Core Subject Support Day 28th January – 8th February Year 11 PPEs 28th February Year 11 Subject Surgery Evening W/C 25th March Internal Exams for some subjects May 2019 Leavers Assembly May – June 2019 Summer Examinations 21st June 2018 PROM

Why?

How?

BENCHMARKING

RAG Rating

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Lighting your work and revision notes

BENCHMARKING

01642 800 800 Chunking is breaking up a big piece of information into smaller chunks rather like steps in a ladder. It can be used for numbers and words. Often students use Bullet points to break up information.

Try to remember this by breaking it up into chunks:

The average person can take in four numbers or words at a time, can concentrate on revision for a maximum of 45 minutes at a time and remembers information best shortly before bedtime.

Chunked:  Remember 4 words/numbers at a time  Revision max 30 mins.  Remember best before bedtime

Chunking Chunking-

CUE CARDS

Cue Cards eg Mind Map

One of the biggest success stories of the Den to date, Levi Roots entering the Den in 2007 (series 4) has become a household name with his popular hot BBQ sauces that tell you to “put some music in your food”. Having serenaded the Dragons in his pitch with the song that he would later become widely famous for, Roots (real name Keith Graham) won investment from Jones and Farleigh on a “punt” and was told by Duncan Bannatyne that there was “no future for his business”. The sauce is a secret recipe from Levi's grandmother and must be hot stuff because even Peter Jones raised a sweat after trying it. Levi was in a lather too, and got mixed up between his litres and kilos: "I'm a singer, not a mathematician." In the end Levi warmed two of the Dragons' hearts though, because Peter Jones

• ffered half the amount for 20% of equity, and Richard Farleigh chipped in with the remaining

£25,000 for another 20%. So he left the Den with £50,000 and 60% of his business and gave the Dragons' a reprise of his song, disappearing to warm applause. Fast forward eight years and Roots has undoubtedly proved Bannatyne wrong. Reggae Reggae sauces are now stocked in all the major UK supermarkets and Roots has expanded his range to cover chilled ready meals, pasties and even Caribbean-flavoured soft drinks – taking his worth to an estimated £30m according to the Sunday Times Rich List. And it’s not just food, the British-Jamaican entrepreneur has put his name to a series of cookbooks, music albums, his own Caribbean-inspired food festival, had a BBC TV cooking show and plans to launch a chain of global restaurants. While Farleigh is no longer involved in the business – Jones bought out Farleigh for little more than he invested – Jones remains a shareholder and advocate for the brand; “it’s one of my most successful investments from the show”. Levi Roots is continuing to sizzle with a net worth of 45million dollars.

What did you learn from reading?

• 1. In what year did Levi enter the Den?
• 2. What is Levi’s real name?
• 3. Who invested in the Business?
• 4. What products are part of his expansion?
• 5. What is Levi Root’s net worth?

English Example!

Mnemonics

Mnemonics

Structure of DNA Adenine Thymine Cytosine Guanine

Principles of Training Specific Progression Overload Reversibility Tedium

Shakespeare born 1564 I think Romeos dead

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

Pic of Sporthall/ Gym

Roman Room

My Amaz My Amazing ing Memor Memory Now lets see how many you have remembered? Which words did you remember? – let’s hear as many of them as you can remember.

listen to these words and try to remember as many as possible.

Br Brain ain Friendl iendly y Re Revisi vision

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• You remember the words at the beginning and at the

end, it’s the ones in the middle that get lost – why?

• It helps to make categories of words in your mind –

colours, modes of transport, moods etc.

• It helps to make links or associations – fish, chips, peas,

salt and vinegar

• It helps if words are repeated – e.g. ‘the’
• Some words stand out
• Some words have strong emotion attached to them, e.g.

‘exams’

FLORA- First, Last, Outstanding, Repeated, Associated

How long should We revise for?

Time (hours) Learning

1 2 3 4

Students working without breaks

Breaks are important!

Time (hours) Learning

1 2 3 4 Breaktime! Breaktime! Breaktime! Breaktime!

To take breaks = remember more!

• 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!

Maximise Your Learning

Breaks are important!

Other TIPS

Research shows that testing yourself is essential for long – term memory

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Order/Sequence Have a look through your notes/books and order or sequence the notes. Place them in a logical sequence so you can see how things

• progress. You may find a

more logical way of seeing things. Reading Out Loud Read your revision notes

• ut loud to a particular

rhythm – this could be set by music playing in the background or tapping your foot or by walking calmly and

• steadily. This is a sort of

walk and talk.

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Change key words in the topic for pictures or symbols or abbreviations and use those in your revision Q & A Devise questions and answers about a topic for other people and quiz each

• ther.

You could think of doing a “Who wants to be a millionaire” game where the questions are graded according to the difficulty you choose.

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Questions

Ask questions before you revise

• anything. Think about the topic

to be studied and take some time

• ut

to think about the questions you would like to have some-one answer for you. Write them down and as you read through your notes jot down any answers you find. The brain likes looking for

• answers. Go and get help for any

answers you do not find.

Post-its Write information on post-it notes and place them on the wall, door, large sheets of paper etc. You can then rearrange them according to a variety of ideas:

• Group various things together
• Organise them into what you

know and don’t know – rearrange as you learn more

• Follow trends or themes

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Recordings

Make a tape for yourself to revise

• from. It could be you reading your

notes out loud. It could be you singing your notes. It could be you reading and then stopping to summarise what you have read (key words, ideas, phrases, quotations)

• r

Asking questions on what you have covered. Listen to the tape as you lie in bed, walk to school, travel on the bus.

Visuals

• Make good use of

drawings /diagrams in your revision.

• Use different colours.
• Replace key words /ideas

/people/places with pictures.

• Create and put posters up

around your home.

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Highlighters

As you read through your notes use different coloured highlighters to pick out key words /themes/ideas/ points

• etc. You could try a different

colour for each theme or topic. There are revision websites where you can read revision notes and highlight as you go. You can use very small post-its to highlight things as you go along.

Underlining

 As you read through the

work in your exercise book underline key words.

 You could come up with a

predicted list before you start or you could make a list

• f the key words at the end.

 You could underline in

different colours, patterns

• r lines like wiggly, thick etc.

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Make lists

• Bullet point them

Or 1. number them Or a) letter them According to what suits you

• best. Numbers will definitely

suit those who are more comfortable using their left/logical, side of the brain. Use Colour Your brain just adores colour and will remember things much more easily if you use it. E.g. put all the important words in red, the important concepts in green, important dates in purple etc.

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Re-write the topic in your own words. Find out why you are learning it—then make it interesting for you. Reward yourself Once you have learned something give yourself a treat. Go out with some friends for an hour, watch TV but only

• nce you have reached

your revision target.

Helpful Helpful tips

• tips. On the

On the da day: y:

Make sure you have everything you need.

 A watch  Pens, pencils (spare or

sharpener),

 ruler  Calculator if needed and

allowed (spare battery)

 A pen you can write with

quickly, comfortably and legibly Make the most of your short term memory. Learn the 10 most important facts whilst waiting to go into the exam and write them down as soon as you are allowed to pick up a pen.

– Read:

 - the instructions.  - all of the questions before

you choose which to do.

 - each question carefully.

– Time yourself Divide the time appropriately between the number of questions you have to do and watch the clock to stick to 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.

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