1. Year 8 Study Day
11th January 2017

2. 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

3. Where is it all leading to?
Post -16 options, apprenticeships and college
Re-sits of Maths and English if under grade 4

4. How to listen?
You need to listen today in order to get the most from the day.
So how do you listen?

5. 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

6. 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

7. The steps to implementing the Pomodoro Technique
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
Why is time management important?
Video link on image

8. 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

10. Is this you?

11. 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

12. ENJOYED CHALLENGES 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

13. WAS RESILIENT WHEN FACED WITH PROBLEMS
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
His book, A Brief History of Time, has sold over 10 million copies
Kept going and believed in himself and his own abilities
WAS RESILIENT WHEN FACED WITH PROBLEMS

14. SAW EFFORT AS PART OF THE PATH TO SUCCESS
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. She also took on the role of Head Girl.
Gained 3 law degrees from the top universities in America
Worked hard and put in maximum effort at every step of her education
SAW EFFORT AS PART OF THE PATH TO SUCCESS

15. How can someone be outstanding?
THEIR Mind-set

16. 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

18. Using the ‘Growth Mindset’
Discussion - How would you deal with these issues?:
You have done badly in a test which you did not know how to revise for.
You are not sure what to do in a 2 week History project
Following an MFL lesson you go home and look in your book and think I did not understand today’s lesson.
You still do not understand a topic in Maths despite asking the teacher
You are not keeping all 10 RTL points each half term

20. 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

21. 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