REVIEWS: Pupils in South Wales praise the 6S Study Skills Course

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Year 11 pupils at Llantarnam Comprehensive, South Wales experienced the 6S Study Skills Course run by Alan David Pritchard on Tuesday 3 March, and here are some of their comments about the course:

“I want to thank you for taking your time to come down here and help us work. It really really helped me to remember things. I feel really confident now. Not being sarcastic, I do feel like I am going to be better at my exams. I hate revising, just sit reading a book for hours, but now I think I will enjoy learning. Thank you so much.” Naomi Coombs

“Thank you so much for a great day. I learnt about all the different ways I can study and how easy it is for me to remember things. I am not panicking as much about my exams. This will help me a lot. Love the slides.” Chloe-Beth Nicolaou

“Just to say thanks for everything. I had a fab time and found the course very useful. You make learning more fun and I will use everything you learnt us to help with my exams. Thanks a lot.”  Shannen Humphries

“I just want to say thank you for everything today. It was fun!” Hollie Matthews

“Thanks for today and your time. I am sure this will help me a lot for my exams. Much appreciated.” Tiffany Parry

“It was fun!” Nicole Porter

“Thank you for coming to the school to help us to revise properly for exams and prepare ourselves.” Alex Lloyd

“Thank you for a good day and teaching me I can do anything.” Francine Clark

“Cheers for coming in today. This information and journal will help a lot.” Andrew Jordan

“Thank you for all the new techniques I have learnt which I know will be an amazing help during my examinations.” Scott McCarthy.

“Thank you for today. We had loads of fun. I hope you had a good day at our school.” Chloe Copeman

“You are truly a star. Well done!” Emily Jones

“Thanks for coming to our school.” James Lloyd

“Thank you for the day and I hope other people enjoy the day as much as I did.” Andrew Neal.

“Thanks for a great session.” Jess Morris.

“Thanks for a lovely day. It really helped me organise myself.” Riley Barret

“Thank you very much for a wonderful day.” Jake Jones

“Thank you for a wonderful day.” Thomas Gibbins

62% said their memories had improved as a result of the course

82% felt their confidence levels had been raised

79% felt that we had positively changed their view of their ability to study effectively

100% of the students reported that they would recommend the course to others, and they provided these reasons:

• It will help with their studying and their ability to learn.
• You learn about different techniques of learning.
• It gives tips on how to revise that I didn’t know before.
• It makes you realise there are many techniques to revise.
• It is helpful.
• Definitely very helpful.
• It helps a lot.
• It was good.
• It helps with revision.
• It can help everyone in a different way.
• It is good advice and you can learn from it.
• It shows that the ideas do work.
• It will help them with future exams.
• It makes it easier to remember things.
• It offers a great deal of help and support.
• It will help others.
• Easy to help remember.
• If it helps me, it will help anyone.
• It opens your eyes to learning.
• It is useful and helpful.
• I found some elements of the course useful.
• It’s brilliant.
• It’s a lot of fun.

When asked what they most liked about the course, they wrote:

• Everybody was involved.
• Fun that we had.
• The Roman Room System.
• That it showed me loads of different ways to study.
• It was fun and easy.
• It was enjoyable.
• Everything.
• The belief that we are not stupid.
• Remembering things.
• Finding out all the different ways to study.
• The study skills that I learnt.
• Making the songs up. It was fun.
• Learning new ways to revise.
• The different revision techniques.
• It was fun.
• I liked the fact that it was fun and not like normal lessons.
• I found it very interactive.
• All of it.
• They way it added humour.
• Everything was enjoyable.
• It’s not normal ordinary revision and it gives you good advice.
• Knowing now that there are various methods for revising.
• It was a fun way of learning.
• The jokes.

When asked to explain how they thought the course had changed their view of their ability to study effectively, they wrote:

• It has made me see how powerful the power of your memory can be.
• I now have many ways of being able to study.
• It has given me more fun techniques to do well.
• More ways to revise and remember.
• I feel more confident about revising.
• I feel I have a more dynamic view of learning.
• I have found new ways to remember things.
• You have given me advice on how to study and sleep.
• I now understand different techniques and how to remember things.
• You have changed my view because I can see that I can remember things easier.
• I feel more confident I can learn easier.
• I have learnt a lot about new ways to study.
• I understand how easy it is to study.
• I feel a lot more confident.
• Alan made it a good bit of fun.
• Alan made it seem fun.
• Because I will use most of the methods that I learned.
• I have found new ways of revising.
• I think I can do a little bit better.
• I now have more confidence.