REVIEWS: Students ‘hooked’ on Hooks, Lines and Thinkers

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Hooks, Lines and Thinkers is a set of English and Science workshops, designed to show students different ways to revise for exams.  Each workshop ends with a tally count of everything the students can remember, and students leave these sessions amazed at their ability to remember over 180 facts without writing them down.

The courses also demonstrate different learning approaches – from journeying around a room to remember physics facts, to attaching information to mind ‘hooks’ to remember key English skills.

Highly interactive, great fun and a truly pupil-friendly experience, the Hooks, Lines and Thinkers courses have received terrific reviews from the students who have experienced them.

Recently the course creator Alan David Pritchard delivered both the English and Science workshops to two sets of Year 10 students at Howard of Effingham School in Surrey.

“Being the end of term, I expected a lot of tired and drained students,” Alan admits, “but they were really a lot of fun to teach and responded very well to the ideas and methods.”

Here is a selection of the 4 and 5 STAR reviews the course received:

• It was helpful. Deeper understanding of ways to study.- James
• It’s a great way to study effectively, fun, enjoyable. Great 2 hours. – Samuel
• It is effective for learning. – Sam B
• It is effective at helping me remember key points to revise. – Ruth A
• Entertaining, funny and you learn new methods. – Georgina
• Good way of learning and remembering things in a different fun way. – Lucy
• It was engaging and interesting. He was funny and I understood what I was doing. – Ben C
• Fun. – James N
• It’s better than lessons and you are not just sitting listening and writing down. – Amy
• It is funny and positively mad! – Ben
• It was more interesting than learning in class and I will probably remember more.
• It is a really good way of learning because it stays in your head and it’s much more
• interesting than what he learn in classrooms. – Lucy
• It is very clever how you can use pictures and images to remember things.
• It has helped me to remember important facts that I can use in exams.
• It showed a new and interesting way to learn and to study. It was also quite fun. –Abigail F