Some of our Y11 students visited Staffordshire University where we left with key skills including revising, timetabling, memorising and discipline. Students learnt how to motivate themselves to revise, analyse their performance and prioritise their efforts. Furthermore, students were able to condense information and create cue/revision cards, use mnemonic and spatial memory techniques.
The day equipped our students with the most relevant strategies to take control of their revision and exam preparation.
This is what our students thought:
- To believe in myself no matter how unlikely achieving the scenario is
- Positive and believe that you can be motivated!
- Made me have more self-confidence and overcome challenges
- I now have an idea on how to revise
- Motivated me to not underestimate myself
- Made me believe in myself more
- It has motivated me to focus
- Opened my mind that I can do things
- Makes me believe I can pass all of my GCSEs
- Believe and work hard
- It was really fun and not boring
- I learnt how to be motivated and how to focus
- I know that I can do everything if I want it
- It was fun and made me realise to not doubt myself
- Showed me different ways to learn
- Helped me with different ways to revise
- I learnt techniques to remember information
- It made me reflect
- Made me realise that cue cards are easy and vital to create
- I can use this in school
- Made it easy to revise and remember
- Taught me how to revise easier
- Helped me to see what exams techniques are for me
- Gave me more broad revision techniques
- I liked the number words
- I know how to remember and revise
- Positive!
- It has helped me manage my revision