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Welcome

• Please read the GCSE exam paper on your chair.
  Discuss with the people near you which ones you
  can do.
• Orange is French
• Cream is Geography
• Green is Maths
• Blue is Chemistry
• Pink is History
• Purple is English Literature
• Yellow is Physics

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This is to certify that in the examination held
in June 2010 Name _________________ Date of
Birth ____________ Achieved the following
result at WHITLEY BAY HIGH SCHOOL ENGLISH
LANGUAGE GRADE ENGLISH LITERATURE GRADE MATHEM
ATICS GRADE SCIENCE DOUBLE
AWARD GRADE OPTION 1 GRADE OPTION
2 GRADE OPTION 3 GRADE OPTION
4 GRADE

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Visualisation

• Visualisation has been found to
• Improve concentration
• Build confidence
• Control emotional responses dealing with
  catastrophe in a positive way
• Practise performance skills
• Practise strategy
• Cope with pain

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• It can be used
• At the beginning and end of lessons
• During breaks in lessons.
• During personal time
• During the build up to exams.

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To make visualisation successful

• Make the picture as vivid as possible
• Make sure you control what is happening
• Limit the number of distractions
• Accompany it with relaxation techniques.
• Ensure realistic expectations and motivation
  levels
• Focus on a positive outcome
• Focus on the end result
• Images must span over a real time period.

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GCSE GRADES DO MATTER -

• Underestimating their importance
• Jobs/Apprenticeships
• High tariff universities/courses

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99.7 of our students in year 11 this year
achieved success

• 346 students in the year and 345 got 5 or more A
  to G
• 88 achieved 5 or more higher grades
• 5 students got 8 A each!

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Results Days
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Question
This years Year 11 had 359 students. In natural
ability rank from 1-359, which do you think was
the lowest ranked student who still managed to
get 5 A-C?
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Answer
The 356th student ranked by natural ability
achieved 5 A-C. In case you think this is a
fluke result, so did the student ranked 354. That
is a gold medal performance! Our number 1 ranked
student got 1 A, 3As, 3Bs and 4 Cs. Who do you
admire the most? The highest ranked student not
achieving 5 A-C was number 157. She got 3 A-C
WITH HARD WORK ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE Usain
Bolt 2008
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Employer

• What 4 questions do employers routinely ask in
  reference requests?

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BUILDING A PERSONAL STATEMENT/CV

• Time is on their side
• Competitive market
• Key opportunities

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WHITLEY BAY HIGH SCHOOL SIXTH FORM

• Best results in the Local Authority
• Named as one of the best Sixth Forms in the
  country
• Care and guidance rated as outstanding
• Students enjoy their time in Sixth Form

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THE APPLICATION PROCESS

• Minimum of 5 A - C grades
• Some subjects require B grades
• Supportive reference from tutor/Head of Year
• Expectations regarding Sixth Form entry

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Anonymous student says

• Im not going to do any revision for the trial
  exams
• because that will help me to decide what I need
  to revise for the real exams. Itll tell me what
  I know and what I dont know.

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How important are the trial exams?

• The week helps prepare students for the pressures
  of the real GCSE exams.
• They provide an opportunity to practise revision
  skills.
• They provide an opportunity to practise exam
  skills under exam conditions.
• They will help students and teachers to assess
  progress.

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So how do you as parents support your children
through revision now and later?

• We have recently done some work in school on
  cutting edge research in Neuroscience
  specifically the discovery of and research into
  mirror neurons, the neurons which suggest that
  all human behaviour is based on imitation, that
  we are all hard-wired to follow the example of
  others.

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Parents and teenagers

• Actively supporting them with homework and
  revision through modelling

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Top 5 Work Promotion Strategies

• Find out where your child works best
• Accept noise!
• Provide paper / gel pens / highlighters /
  printing ink / calculators / pens etc
• Prioritise use of the family computer
• Provide incentives (eg bribes!)

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Memory Test

• How many of the 20 objects displayed as you
  arrived can you remember?
• The names of 2 parents in the room will appear on
  this screen in 10 secs.
• YOU will take the memory challenge.

ONLY JOKING!!!!!!
Please think of as many of the 20 objects as you
can recall and compare them with the answers
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Answers

• Toilet brush
• Dog
• Torch
• Toaster
• Fork
• Spanner
• Hedgehog
• Cooker/oven
• Cat
• Teapot

• Goldfish
• Mirror
• Bird
• Tea towel
• Soap dish
• Horse
• Corkscrew
• Fox
• Light bulb
• Dustbin

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5 Ways to Remember

• Draw a mind map
• Visit a room or make up a story
• Categorisation
• Posters or post its
• Make up a song or rap

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5 Ways to Remember

• Draw a mind map
• Visit a room or make up a story
• Categorisation
• Posters or post its
• Make up a song or rap

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• Though no one can go back and make a brand
  new start, anyone can start from now and make a
  brand new ending.     Anonymous

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Know your child's commitments

• Student A

• Student B

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Learning to Learn Conference

• January 13th 2010
• St Jamess Park
• Launch of the final push
• Motivational Speaker
• Workshops
• Sign up for future intervention workshops

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Workshops 2009/10

• For Parents
• Off the sofa and into the exams
• GT Workshops
• English
• Maths
• Science
• Setting boundaries

For Students English, Maths and Science
masterclasses Stress management Time
management Revision techniques
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"If you don't know where you are going you will
probably end up somewhere else." Laurence
Peter, 1919-90
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