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OVERVIEW

The 6S Study Skills Coaching Package presents schools and learning establishments with a comprehensive and inspiring approach to study skills and personalised learning.

The package consists of:

• 5 highly entertaining and informative student-facing workshops
• Superb training by one of the country’s leading youth coaches
• Supportive post-course resources to enable students to capture good practice
• Professionally produced in-course workbooks, feedback booklets, certificates
• A Teacher Training Pack allowing staff to become in-school study skill experts

The 6S Study Skills course is a dynamic, invigorating and highly practical personalised learning coaching programme for all students needing to prepare more effectively for exams, tests and life-long learning.

It is presented as 5 X 60 minute workshops, each building upon the other to provide students with a systematic approach to learning and to empower them with a range of innovative learning techniques.

During the course, the students experience and reflect upon the effectiveness of 10 different learning tools, targeting a range of visual, auditory and kinaesthetic learning styles. Students are also shown how to avoid cram studying by using Positively MAD’s unique Regular Review Process.

The tools that the students will learn to use are:

• The portrait summary poster
• The landscape summary poster
• The story-link method
• The rhyming song method
• The person as location method
• The roman room/ journey system
• The number shape memory hook system
• Mind mapping study timetables
• The Quick-fire Quiz Process
• Mnemonic notes method

The course is called the 6S Study Skills System because it shows students how to reflect on these 6 key areas to success:

• Sleep
• Sustenance (diet)
• Sport (exercise)
• Support (given and received)
• Skills (needed for exam success)
• State (mental attitude)

This course has two main aims:

• To encourage students to reflect on their learning so that they can experiment with a range of different learning tools in order to become versatile, accomplished, life-long learners
• To encourage students to reflect on their lifestyle choices so that they can choose healthier options in order to maximise the chance of success in the exams

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VALUE

When you book this tremendously inspirational and highly effective coaching package, your students will experience:

• A superb training event delivered by one of our world-class, top-notch youth coaches, whose ability to inform and entertain will provide your students with an unforgettable learning experience
• Well-researched, relevant and highly practical learning tools which appeal to a wide range of learning styles and which promote creativity and enjoyment
• A learning to learn/ learning to study system that fosters independent, self-supported formative learning habits
• A highly enjoyable, humour-filled, interactive learning experience

Plus, this tremendous package includes:

• 30 x in-course student workbooks, that can be used as reference material after the course
• 30 x student feedback booklets for pre, during and post course reflections and evaluations
• 30 x student certificates to serve as a positive reminder of what they are capable of
• 30 x student study note starter kits which encourage your students to immediately trial new learning techniques
• 30 x student full-colour reflective journals which promote self reflection and holistic exam preparation

Also, your teachers will receive:

• A fully resourced Presenter Training Pack showing teachers how to deliver this tremendously useful course themselves. This pack contains:

• 5 x live delivery training video CDs, to allow teachers to experience the course where and when they choose
• 1 x presentation slides disc, with the complete professionally produced slideshow
• 1 x information manual, with background information regarding the course, showing how it fits into current educational thinking
• 1 x full presentation script / presenter handbook, with instructions on how best to deliver the course
• 1 x set of student resources, including the workbook, reflective journal, certificate and starter kit

In addition, your school will receive:

• A comprehensive feedback report which collates student evaluations and provides qualitative and quantitative data regarding:

• How much the course has changed confidence levels
• The effectiveness of each of the learning tools
• Student willingness to use the tools after the course
• How much they enjoyed the experience
• How willing they are to use and share resources after the course
• Their impression and endorsement of the course

THIS PACKAGE WILL HELP YOUR STUDENTS STUDY MORE EFFICIENTLY.
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RESULTS

This course encourages your students to:

• Reflect regularly on their learning in order to experiment with and master a range of effective learning tools
• Take personal responsibility for their own learning
• Avoid cram studying through systematic and regular review
• Try different learning approaches for different learning areas
• Use more than one approach to exam preparation
• Reflect on ways they can change lifestyle habits to support their learning

As a result of this course, your students will:

• Feel more confident in their ability to learn effectively
• Be motivated to study more systematically and efficiently
• See the learning process as creative and rewarding
• Be encouraged to adopt healthier lifestyle options
• Realise that they have access to more than one learning style
• See themselves as being capable and successful learners
• Be inspired to regularly review their learning

The 6S Study Skills Coaching Package allows schools to:

• Target specific groups of students who most need to learn how to study efficiently
• Create an in-house pool of learning specialists who are able to present this course themselves
• Foster reflective practice in both staff and pupils
• Encourage students to become versatile learners

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COURSE CONTENT

This course consists of 5 one-hour workshops, which can be run over one or more days to groups of up to 30 students at a time.

Workshop 1: What is the Regular Review Process? Students are shown why cram studying is ineffective and how a process of regular review can improve learning. They are shown how to KEYWORD their notes and how to use the STORYLINK METHOD to foster VAK learning.

Workshop 2: Myth busters. Students are shown how to change their thinking regarding their abilities, and are introduced to the PORTRAIT SUMMARY POSTER as an effective visual learning tool. During this hour we focus on improving mental state and we learn why having a positive thinking state is actually healthy for you.

Workshop 3: The importance of sleep and water. Students examine the importance of keeping a regular sleep cycle and drinking lots of water daily. They explore these themes using the LANDSCAPE SUMMARY POSTER, PERSON AS LOCATION METHOD and QUICK-FIRE QUIZ learning tools.

Workshop 4: The importance of diet and exercise. Students use the RHYMING SONG METHOD and MNEMONIC NOTES tool to understand the importance of regular exercise and a healthy diet. They are also shown ways to relax using the BALLOON BREATHING approach.

Workshop 5: Towards Reflective Practice. Students are shown the ROMAN ROOM METHOD of learning, and brainstorm ways they can best support each other during the exams. They are shown how to use mind maps to create study time tables and learn how to use the topic envelope and daily lesson review pages as a means to make effective study notes. We end by using the NUMBER RHYME MEMORY HOOK system to consolidate the learning so far, and students are then given their 6S Reflective Journals to encourage them to make reflective practice a good habit.

Endorsements

“A Vibrant Course”

“Thank you for such a fabulous and positive session on Thursday.  As expected the presenter made a great impression with the students who seemed to hang on to every word!  The day was so far removed from the general expectations the students have of ‘standard revision sessions’.  The day allowed the students to explore their strengths and capabilities in a fun and engaging manner.  Students who started the session saying “I can’t do it”, “I’m not clever”, soon realised that with the right techniques they are a lot more capable than they give themselves credit for.

The group was a real mixed bag with some typically confident students and some quieter, more reserved students.  The structure of the day allowed all students to work together and to express themselves in ways they would certainly never normally feel able to.

All the feedback we have received from the students since the day has been glowing.  We have also looked at some separate evaluation forms that indicate that the day has had a positive effect on the attitude of the students towards FE and HE which is brilliant.

From a staff point of view it was great to be involved in such an engaging session, watching the student’s reactions and confident contributions was fantastic.

I hope we can work with Positively Mad again in the near future.  Thank you to you all for providing such a vibrant course.”

Cheryl Pawson, King Edward VI, Spilsby

“THIS IS HOW THE COURSE CHANGED MY VIEWS OF STUDYING”

(These comments were made by year 11 students at Deben High School)

• I am more confident
• Not to leave it till the last minute
• I was feeling so negative about the exams coming, but I am now feeling very positive about them
• I feel more confident in my revision techniques
• I think I am really confident for my exams
• I feel confident within myself
• I feel more confident with different study techniques
• I have been given a brilliant talk/speech/slideshow which has helped me a lot
• I know understand better ways to study
• I never revise and now I am more optimistic to do so
• Before I wasn’t very comfortable with my ability to remember things but I am now
• Before I would just read my notes and books, but now I have an easier way to revise
• Now I have more fun ways to study
• I will study a little bit more
• It has shown new ways to study and revise
• Studying is not that boring
• There are lots of ways of simple learning that I didn’t realise and it was good to know it is simple
• I felt confident in my ability prior to the event – this has just reinforced this
• I have discovered better ways to revise
• Before I believed I only had one learning ability but now I know there are many
• I will now study better without distractions and studying will be fun now.

“THIS IS WHY I WOULD RECOMMEND THIS COURSE TO OTHERS”

(These comments were made by year 11 students at Broadway High School)

• So more people will have the ability to do better
• It is extremely useful to know how your mind works under particular conditions
• It has very helpful memory tips and will help you with revision. The course was excellent and I believe it will help me with my GCSE revision
• Thank you very much. Your work built up my motivation and I am determined to use your tips to get the best of grades. I loved your way of teaching and your personality was fantastic. It would be great if you would visit us again for it was a pleasure having you here and I am honoured to have been in your presence
• It gives you lots of ways to expand your learning abilities
• It is very useful and helpful
• It is an entertaining course
• It will help people improve their memories. The presenter is a very amusing, funny man who has made studying much more fun
• The course is very effective
• I am privileged and enjoyed today’s session. I feel it has helped me a lot. The presenter was brilliant
• The course has changed and helped my view towards studying
• The course gets people involved
• It is fun and educational and can help people a lot
• The course will get more people thinking better. The presenter is a very bubbly teacher, very entertaining and I enjoyed his company
• I think others should learn what we learnt
• I think the presenter is wonderful and I will always remember him
• It has helped me and I am certain it will help others. I can honestly say it was a great experience, giving us a lot of benefits. Thank you!
• It will help others to remember things. People listen in class but forget everything
• The presenter is very good and I enjoyed what he taught us
• It will help other pupils to study better
• The course is fun and you learn a lot
• The presenter has good jokes and was entertaining and enthusiastic

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