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YEAR 11 PARENT LEARNING GROUP

YEAR 11 MID COURSE EXAMS

• Use them to review.

• Mistake is the first go, correct it.

• What works?

• What doesn’t?

• Approach all exams with a high degree of focus and application

67 SCHOOL DAYS

• 14 Weeks until the HSC commences

• This Term- Year 11 Exams - Year 11 Reports issued12th June- PT interviews 18th June- Senior Learning Centre – Mrs Lewis- Leadership Passports Due – Prefect nomination- Harvey’s challenge – Yr 11 to outrank Yr 12.

HOW ARE WE GOING?

Accelerated Courses

• Biology• Business• Hospitality• IPT• Legal Studies• PDHPE• Society and Culture• Design and Technology• Visual Arts

Ranks

HARD WORK & EFFORT = SUCCESS

• There is no substitute for hard work and effort.

• The more you put in, The better you do.

• Support is available, don’t bury your head in the sand.

• Study groups / Buddy

THE IMPORTANCE OF CONSISTENCY

Use it or Lose it

• Aim to spend 10 mins per lesson each day reviewing and summarising

• Approx 2 hours each weekend reviewing the weeks work.

STUDY SKILLS

• Our brain is wired for temporary information• Once information is repeated our brain says “I better

remember that”

• Use it or lose it!

• Within 24 hours of learning – 10 mins/hour of learning to review / re read / vocalise and summarise – this will keep 100% of the information in your brain for a week• Review after a week – 5 minutes to reactivate• Review after a month 2-4 minutes to reactivate

THE FLIP SIDE

• If you don’t review on a regular basis you will need 40-50 minutes per hour of learning completed to reactivate the information

• Review by recitation, summarising and reading materials out LOUD

• You remember 80% of what you say and do

STYLES OF LEARNING

VARIATIONS

- Mind mapping - Pictures - Apps- Digital clips - Study groups / discussion groups

REMINDERS

• Leadership Passports • Misadventure and the HSC – MHS policy booklet

issued• Study Skills sessions – parents 4th June, 5.30-6.30pm

in hall• Disability Provisions – inform the school asap!

• HSC standards – BOSTES http://www.boardofstudies.nsw.edu.au/hsc/hschttp://www.boardofstudies.nsw.edu.au/hsc/hsc_in_nutshell.html

http://www.boardofstudies.nsw.edu.au/hsc/

MINDFULNESS

• During periods of stress or when you feel overwhelmed. Mindfulness is a positive technique to regaining perspective.

Mindful interrupters• Get up and go and do something else• Do something nice for someone else• Mindful moment• Stressed? Acknowledge it. Out loud: “This is

difficult.” Then ask yourself: What do I need?

A FINAL NOTE…..