Find out more
Students who attended two Study Skills days in October have given them high praise in an impact report.
Out of 130 pupils at a Year 10 event, 82% said the workshops were either very helpful or extremely helpful and 81% said the ideas and strategies they learned were good, very good or excellent.
And from 130 pupils at the Year 8 event, 88% said the workshops were either reasonably helpful, very helpful or extremely helpful and 83% said the ideas and strategies they learned were good, very good or excellent.
Asked what they will do differently in future, one student said: ” I will use peg words in my revision techniques and have a growth mindset – no more ‘can’t’.”
Another said: “I will look at things differently – look outside the box and use lots of different ways to revise.”
The events were open to all members of the Wellington College Student Alliance, and 260 students came from schools including Edgbarrow, Robert May’s, Charters, Bohunt and Blessed Hugh Faringdon.
The Year 8 event on October 22 comprised four one-hour workshops: Memory Matters – using the power of creativity and imagination to make learning easier; Be Awesome, Be You – improving confidence and self-esteem through self-reflection and looking at values and what success means; Goal Setting – aspirations for the future and SMART goals; and Pathfinder – understanding and condensing text and association maps.
At the Year 10 workshop on October 23, students also took part in four workshops, including one called “Plan, Review, Succeed”.
