Year 8 Study Day
11th January 2017
Outcomes
• To equip everyone with the skills they need to make their
studying a success
• To ensure that everyone approaches their learning with a
‘Growth Mindset’
• For everyone to decide on actions they must take to
achieve their outcomes
Where is it all leading to?
• Post -16 options, apprenticeships and college
• Re-sits of Maths and English if under grade 4
How to listen?
You need to listen today in order to get the most from the
day.
So how do you listen?
What techniques can we use to boost our
learning?
• BE ORGANISED
• Mind mapping
• Pomodoro Technique
• Growth Mindset
• Response to feedback-green pen
• Review your learning every day
• Use Show My Homework – every night
• Be resilient and determined to learn and to succeed
Show My Homework
Use your planner with Show My Homework
Check every night
Plan what homework is being done
Year 8, minimum of 1 and a half hours
per night
• Every day and week review your learning
•
•
•
•
Time Management
Pomodoro Technique
The steps to implementing the Pomodoro Technique
• Have your planner and equipment on the desk
• Make a list of tasks/ homework to be done
• Decide on the first task to be done
• Set the Pomodoro timer to 25 minutes
• Work on the task until the timer rings
• Take a short break of 5 minutes, have a drink or a snack
• Set the Pomodoro timer to 25 minutes again and complete another task
How has Year 8 started for you?
• What is going well for you?
• What is more challenging?
• What barriers are there to your progress?
Activity- on your table list the 3 most common things that are
going well and 3 challenges at the start of Year 8.
Discussion follows
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElVUqv0v1EE
Is this you?
How can someone be outstanding?
their family
natural talent
where they live
fearlessness
the equipment they use
Or…….
Is it loads and loads of practice
Is it persistence and learning from mistakes
Walt Disney
• First business failed. He ended up
eating dog food because he was so
poor
• Was told Mickey Mouse would never be
successful because it would “scare
women”
• Was told that the three little pigs
would be a failure because it needed
more characters
• Saw the setbacks as challenges and
opportunities to prove himself
ENJOYED
CHALLENGES
Stephen Hawking
• Told that he had 2 years to live when he
was in his early 20’s
• Became restricted to a wheelchair and
lost the ability to speak or move
• Began using a new system to
communicate and write books
WAS RESILIENT
WHEN FACED• His book, A Brief History of Time, has sold
over 10 million copies
WITH
PROBLEMS
• Kept going and believed in himself and
his own abilities
Michelle Obama
• Brought up in a 1 bedroom flat in a rough
area of Chicago
• Worked so hard in primary school that she
was put forward a year
• Has high aspirations and attended a
different after school club each night.
SAW EFFORT AS She also took on the role of Head Girl.
PART OF THE
• Gained 3 law degrees from the top
PATH TO
universities in America
SUCCESS
• Worked hard and put in maximum effort
at every step of her education
How can someone be outstanding?
THEIR Mind-set
Developing a ‘Growth Mindset’
• Look at the ‘Developing a ‘Growth Mindset’ sheet
• How could you change the negative statements in the left column (FIXED
MINDSET statements) into positive statements in the right column
(GROWTH MINDSET statements)
• You have 10 minutes to complete the task
Using the ‘Growth Mindset’
Discussion - How would you deal with these issues?:
1. You have done badly in a test which you did not know how to revise
for.
2. You are not sure what to do in a 2 week History project
3. Following an MFL lesson you go home and look in your book and
think I did not understand today’s lesson.
4. You still do not understand a topic in Maths despite asking the
teacher
5. You are not keeping all 10 RTL points each half term
Pupil Voice survey – Year 8 2017
• Please complete the pupil voice questionnaire
• Be fair – focus on all of your lessons over time and not just one
subject
• If you want to make any further comments – write on the sheet
Outcomes
• To equip everyone with the skills they need to make their
studying a success
• To ensure that everyone approaches their learning with a
positive mindset
• For everyone to decide on actions they must take to
achieve their outcomes