1. Year 11 Parents’ Revision Information Evening
The Blandford School

2. Student Leaving Date
Friday 15th June

3. Exam anxiety
Coping With Stress

4. Memory

5. ‘The purpose of education – indeed the purpose of all learning – is to change the long-term memory’

6. Revision Strategies - low challenge -little thinking Re-reading
Re-writing
Summarizing
Highlighting
NOT VERY EFFECTIVE
- low challenge
-little thinking

7. More Effective Strategies
File Cards
condensing key points of a topic onto one side of A4

8. More Effective Strategies
Posters and Post-Its
decorate the house

9. More Effective Strategies
Mind Maps
link different aspects of the topic to aid memory

10. MOST EFFECTIVE STRATEGIES

11. Retrieval Practice Practice
Flashcards – cards with questions on one side and the answers on the other
Past exam papers
Regular quizzing on key points using on-line programmes eg. quizlet.com or quizziz.com
Produce your own:
Fill in the gap for your friends
Multi-choice questions for your friends

12. Distributed Practice Practice
Short blasts of revision with frequent breaks
No more that 25 minutes on one topic/session
5-10 minute break between two sessions
Complete two sessions then have a 30 minute break
Should be completing at least four sessions a night

13. Practice
Interleaved practice

14. When is it best to do it?
When you begin to forget!

15. Blocked Practice - ineffective
Day
Subjects
Time
Topic
Monday
Maths
English
Biology
Fractions
Writing Devices
Photosynthesis
Tuesday RE
History
English Lit
Hinduism
Cold War
Macbeth
Wednesday
French
Physics
Reading comprehension
Equations
Forces
Thursday
Creative techniques
Reproduction
USA
Saturday
Chemistry
Anthology
Reactions
Areas and Perimeters

16. Interleaved Practice – very effective
Day
Subjects
Time
Topic
Monday
Maths
Biology
English
History
Fractions
Photosynthesis
Writing devices
Cold War
Tuesday
French
English Lit
Chemistry
Reading comprehension
Macbeth
Equations
Reactions
Wednesday
Physics RE
Creative techniques
Forces
Hinduism
Listening comprehension
Thursday
Saturday

17. Personalised Learning Checklist
What to practice
Personalised Learning Checklist
Understanding
AQA A2 PE
Unit 3 PHED3 Optimising performance and evaluating contemporary issues within sport
Section B - Psychological aspects that optimise performance
Define the term aggression
Identify the types of aggression
Describe channelled and instrumental aggression
Identify the difference between aggression and assertion
Outline theories of aggression
Describe the instinct theory
Describe the frustration-aggression hypothesis
Explain the social learning theory
Explain the aggressive cue theory
Identify strategies to control aggression

18. Quiz yourself and your friends
Flashcards
Past papers
Decorate
Just highlight
Re-write notes
Just read
Summarise Do
Don’t

19. Basic Ground Rules No music No phones in sight Quiet space
Check and praise

20. Further Support MathsWatch PiXL Apps – History, Geography, English Lit
PiXL Independence
Link: PiXL School Number: Password: Indep37

25. Further Support MathsWatch PiXL Apps – History, Geography, English Lit
PiXL Independence
Link: PiXL School Number: Password: Indep37
Revision sessions
Lessons

26. Health to Perform
Nutrition
Breakfast
Sugars
Night before

28. Stamina to Perform Nutrition Hydration Sleep Breakfast Sugars
Night before
Hydration
Studies into dehydration report ‘decrements in visual-motor tracking, short-term memory and attention’ (Lieberman, 2007)
Sleep

29. Sleep Teenagers need between 8.5 and 9 hours sleep
Most teenagers are chronically sleep deprived
‘Sleep deprivation produces impairments in cognitive and motor performance equivalent to legally prescribed levels of alcohol intoxication.’ (Williamson, 2000)
Remove clutter
Remove phones
Turn off all electrical items
No screen time 1 hour before bed