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Creative Approaches to Learning is a set of dynamic Key Stage 2 presentations designed to delight, inspire and motivate students to see learning as a joyous, empowering and creative experience.
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In preparation for their exams; the Oxford School requested a motivational session for their year 11s and here's the feedback.
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Richard Adams from the North Yorkshire partnership invited Positively MAD to provide our Goal Mapping programme to the delight of the participating students.
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Our new GCSE revision courses, Hooks, Lines and Thinkers are generating some wonderfully positive reviews from students in Lancashire. The two courses - English and Science - show students how to make revision fun and interesting. Here is a sample of the reviews from students at Marsden Heights School in Nelson.
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Lancaster School in Leicester welcomed Positively Mad in to deliver our Nationally acclaimed Exambuster course.
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The following testimonial from the Headteacher of Cefn Saeson school goes some way to describing how Positively MAD continue to inspire and improve students performances.
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We thought we should give an example of typical feedback we receive on a near daily basis about the great work we do in schools up and down the country.
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Originally sanctioned by, and still endorsed by Aimhigher, the Hooks, Lines and Thinkers English and Science courses consistently wow audiences by showing them how to remember loads of important things for the exams by using ways that seem effortless and which are highly personalised and enjoyable.
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Sander De Groot, our esteemed Head of Training recently delivered the first Certificated Practitioner Course of the year to a small group of new Positively Mad Licensees in Oxford.
A Certificated Practitioner Course is the new name for our very popular Certificated Coaching Courses, which enable delegates to gain a deeper understanding and product knowledge of our specific student coaching opportunities.
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Positively MAD has been hard at work piloting and refining a new set of primary presentations which will inspire and motivate pupils at Key Stage 2 to see learning as a joyous and fun experience. Called the Creative Approaches to Learning workshops, these new courses offer primary schools an affordable and exciting learning opportunity.
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Last year we Aimhigher – the organisation responsible to encouraging students to pursue Higher Education – approached Positively MAD to ask us to develop English and Science Workshops for Year 10 and 11 students.
The task was handed over to former teacher and programme designer Alan David Pritchard, and the result was the Hooks, Lines and Thinkers workshops, which were originally trialled in Surrey and then delivered as far north as Preston.
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On 29 January 2010, Alan David Pritchard, the creator of the 6S Study Skills System delivered a practitioner workshop for new PosMAD licensees at the Holiday Inn, Oxford.
The Certificated Practitioner Course allows delegates to experience the coaching programmes the way the students would, with the added benefit of being able to share ideas with other licensees and colleagues regarding delivery and application.
The feedback that Alan received shows that the delegates really enjoyed their training experience, finding it both highly inspirational and very entertaining. Here is a collection of their 5 star reviews:
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Dear Talented Educator
How useful would the following be for your students?
• To know how to shift information from their short term memories into their long-term memories?
• To understand how to exploit windows of opportunity created by an effective revision cycle?
• To apply physiology guidance when preparing for exams?
• To have ways to easily defeat exam nerves?
• To know how to enhance exam performance?
If your answer to the main question is: “Very useful!”, then you will find the following information very relevant indeed.
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Positively MAD has been supporting the Aimhigher regional teams across the country in many different ways over the last 5 years: initially through the EIC networks, and ultimately now helping them achieve and succeed their Learner Progression Frameworks.
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Early this year, we were approached by various National Challenge Co-ordinators to see how we could impact the targeted 653 schools that were identified as needing support in English and Science.
The aim was to help those students on the C/D borderline to improve their chances of getting A-C’s in their examinations. Positively MAD was asked to create courses that would revitalise the students’ interest in learning and boost their levels of confidence and enjoyment.
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Our trio of secondary student seminars called Mastering Student Motivation, Super Speed Study Skills, and Exam Busters consistently delights and empowers audiences all over the country. These high-impacting presentations are delivered to whole year groups at a time and make such an impact that students write to sing our praises and let us know what an impression we have had on their lives.
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Every year, students and teachers provide us with fantastic feedback for our events, and 2009 has been no different – in fact, it has been something of a bumper year for terrific testimonials. Here is a sample of some of the most gratifying feedback we have received:
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As part of our development and expansion programme, Positively MAD has spent most of this year, recruiting and building a network of passionate and committed licensees who are able to generate an income using our company products and services.
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Our news and feedback this year has allowed us to mention our team of passionate presenters and creative course designers – and we are indeed impressed by their professionalism and commitment to changing students’ attitudes to learning.
However, there is another group of people – equally passionate and hard working – who rarely makes it into the spotlight, and without whom our successes as a company would not have been possible.
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As many of you may know, we work closely with LIFT International, the parent company of Brian Mayne’s Goal Mapping organisation – and they have very kindly made available their GOAL MAPPING REPORT free to Positively MAD members.
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New presenter Andy Revell delivered our fantastic Study Skills programme for the new year 11 students and left them ready and empowered for the upcoming exams.
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Corin Mitchell, a senior member of our Sales Team, was recently invited to give a presentation to middle-school students about post-school experiences and career choices.
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The CREATES TRAITS Mnemonic. This is a useful mnemonic for all secondary students who are studying poetry. The mnemonic is a handy guide to answering questions regarding the poet’s method, and helps struggling students to structure their answers and thinking.
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As you may well know, Positively MAD has been recruiting a number of highly creative, dynamic and passionate licensees who have been trained to deliver our two best-selling student coaching programs. We recently invited all licensees to share their success stories and experiences, and received this letter from Helen Turier who details her story as a Posmad Master Licensed Partner.In it she explains how she first trained her own children and the ripple effect that that had on getting her business started.
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Continuing the series of blogs showing how a simple memory system can be used as a basis for teaching, learning and remembering key aspects of the play Macbeth.
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