1. Year 8 Study Skills Objectives Improving your organisational skills
Practical techniques to boost your learning

2. Barriers to Your Learning
A barrier to your learning is anything that prevents you from giving your best when you in a lesson, doing your homework or revising.
Once you identify what the barriers to your learning are, you can make a plan on how to overcome those barriers.
Some barriers may include:
Not concentrating in a lesson
Not doing your homework properly
Not listening to instructions
Not getting enough sleep
Not having the equipment you need

3. Pupil Activity What are the barriers to your learning?
- what stops you working well in class and doing homework.
Silence and then what can you do differently in pairs? ( Think/pair/share)
By end of this lesson you will have solutions!

4. What techniques can we use to boost our learning?
Improving your organisation
Mind mapping
Pomodoro Technique
Metacognition
Response to feedback-green pen
Review Every Day
Revise over time - not just the night before
Be resilient and determined to learn and succeed

5. The Organisation Cycle
Preparing for school – have I got everything I need?
Have I got all the equipment I need? (pens, pencil, ruler, books, planner, PE kit)
Using my planner (timetable, logins/passwords, notes home, homework)
Show My Homework
Completing homework (routine, best environment for you)
Preparing for school – cycle begins again

6. Ask Your Partner
You will now discuss your daily routine for homework and preparing for school with your partner.
What do you think works well for you?
What could you improve?
After listening to your partner is there any advice you could give to them?

7. Show My Homework Use your planner with SMHW Check every night
Plan what homework is being done
Every day and week review your learning

8. 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?
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10. Pomodoro Timer App

11. Benefits of Mind Maps A mind map is a brilliant tool for revision.
Colour and flow make it much easier to read than pages of pages of text.
A mind map makes it much easier when you have to write an essay or long writing pieces
Once you have a structure, you can mind map to include all of the details you need.
Then, you can write up the essay based on your mind map!
There is no right or wrong with a mind map – it is all about what is right for each individual.

12. Example of mind map

13. Activity
You are now going to create a Mind Map based on what you have learned so far in your different subjects from the start of Year 8. You will do this activity using the Pomodoro technique. Pay attention to the example being presented!

14. Other Techniques Revision Cards Post it notes around your room
Oral learning/ testing at home
Use your text book/revision guide/exercise book

15. Metacognition: thinking about thinking
In order for you to progress in your learning you need to be aware of how you learn. This is important as when you know how you learn best – once you know this you can boost your learning.
What are the advantages?
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17. Support in school Ask your teacher immediately for help
You can get equipment such as pens, pencils, rulers and rubbers from the library
Use of resources in school such as the library, computers, printing can be paid for.
Talk to your form tutor or HOY or Mrs Livesey

18. You do the work! Be resilient and work hard to succeed
Get organised
Manage your time
effectively
Response to feedback -
green pen
Revise over time

19. Plenary
At the beginning of the session we talked about the barriers to your learning.
What are the barriers to your learning?
What have you learned from today’s session?
What will you now do differently?
How can you eliminate any barriers in order to ensure that you make your studies a success.

20. Pupil questionnaire