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Study skills workshops for parents of Ada students

Families of Ada students can learn strategies to help their teens prepare for exams in a special workshop for parents and carers on Wednesday, 22 May from Elevate Education. 

 

Preston High School works with Elevate Education to help our students with study skills, motivation, wellbeing, and exam preparation. This webinar, which runs from 6.30pm to 7.30pm, will show families how to help support their teen at home by reinforcing the skills they’re learning at school. 

 

Parents will learn how to help their child with time management, how they can prioritise work to maximise marks in an exam and how to use past exam papers as an effective study tool.

 

The hour-long webinar is free for Preston families. You can register via the button below.

 

Ava study skills webinar

 

How to help your child revise

Parents often ask, “What is one activity I can use to help my child revise?” Often they want something quick and easy that they can enforce and support. One go-to is what is called the Learning Intention Hour of Power.  Here's how it works for the student. 

 

What the student needs: Blank paper, pens, timer/stopwatch, and their OneNote lessons for the day

How long does it take: 1 Hour

Steps: 

  1. On a blank piece of paper, write the day's learning intention at the top. 
  2. Cross out the “I can” statement so that the learning intention becomes a question. For example, “I can use the law of conservation of mass to explain observations in an experiment.”
  3. Set the timer for 10 minutes.
  4. Start the timer and have the student answer the Learning intention question without looking at their lesson or notebook—this is super important!
  5. If the student finishes before the timer goes off, they can open their book or OneNote and add any missing detail to their answer using a different-coloured pen. But they must wait at least 30 seconds after they finish writing in case anything pops back into their mind.
  6. Once the timer has gone off, the student has a two-minute break (use the timer again) to stretch, go to the loo, etc. 
  7. They then write the learning intention for session two on the top of another blank paper.
  8. They repeat steps 2 to 6 for the second session.
  9. The student repeats the process for each of the five sessions across the day. 
  10. After 60 minutes they will have revised each session from the day.