Lower Sixth Personal Tutor Page
DEESIDE
ACTIVITIES
Term 2 - January
Week 15: One to ones
plus individual work on
Preparing for Employment and Your Next Levels of learning
One to Ones
It is really important that in the first three weeks of Term 2 that al personal tutors make time within classes for a one to one catch up with all learners. This one to one should cover:
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Grades and information from the December reports
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Progress being made against ALPs targets
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Targets to help learning move forward and to keep you motivated to achieve and get the best possible results.
Whilst undertaking one to ones all learners can follow the work below on preparing for employment and your next levels of learning.
It's a New Year and a great time to start thinking about your next steps.
Have a look at our especially designed Coleg Cambria Career Coach Tool
Work Experience
A good first step to way to getting a job is to have any type work experience related to your future career route or yur vocational course. This could be unpaid or a part time job. This is a great way to develop your personal statement for university.
Know your skills
When you apply for a job or university you will need to understand what skills you have gained from your course and from your interests and hobbies. You need to be able to talk and demonstrate these confidently. So start thinking and developing this now. Use the Careers Wales website to help you:
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Make a list of all the skills you have learned so far on your course.
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Add the skills you have which would make you a good employee... Watch this video about the skills valued by employers. Discuss each skill as a group and then consider individually how you can demonstrate that you have these skills too.
2. How can you show off your skills to employers?
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Discuss as a group how you can do this
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Why not start developing a blog or a google site to evidence the skills you are developing? You can add pictures / photo evidence and reflect on the skills you are learning and how they can help you find employment. You add your research and things you'd like to achieve, and when you go for a job, you can show/ share this with the employer...
Here are some platforms you could use:
Google communities can help you connect and share ideas
Pinterest is highly visual and enables you to make visual boards to evidence your creations and skills development.
Instagram gives visual and social media functions and is a popular choice for posting pictures
Discuss why you need to take care with using Facebook and other social media sites for evidencing employment and skills
Think about: tagging photos, mixing private friends photos and posts with your professional profile
New Years resolutions for A Level Students: Ways to improve your grades
Read the tips below and discuss together how you study and revise best?
It’s January and that means it must be time for New Year's resolutions. January is a time to get refocussed and prepare for your first set of mock exams. With that in mind, here are some New Years resolutions you can make this month to help boost your grades.
Get into a routine
Begin the year by getting yourself into a good routine. Start with trying to get a regular good night’s sleep – aim for at least eight hours – and avoid letting yourself stay in bed in the mornings and don't go to bed too late.
Get organised
Get yourself organised, use a calendar, diary to plan in time to study each subject. Study means going over work you've done in class and adding to your notes with further research and learning. It means practising exam questions. Make sure your notes are all organised and complete.
Get Studying Together
Study groups are a fabulous way to learn. Research shows that when students teach each other and learn together, they do really well in exams. This is because working together helps you to make sense of complex ideas. Talking through topics helps things to stick in your mind and by discussing these ideas you start to ask more questions and research on line to find out even more. Also you can study for longer as you won't lose concentration. It will work as long as you all agree to stay on task and focussed on the studying for a set time. Have a go!
Get revising
Revision isn’t something that needs to start just before your exams. Getting into the habit of doing ongoing revision as you learn is the best way of making sure you understand the content and it fully sinks in. Test yourself on the topic and create future revision aids such as flashcards now while it’s all still fresh in your mind. Connect topics together using mind maps.
Keep up with assignments. Getting behind gives you less time, leads to stress and makes for rushed work.
Attend every class
Attending all of your classes will help you get into a good long-term routine and help your learning. While notes and slides may be available online, most of the learning this term will be spent applying your learning and practising questions, so it's really important that you attend every single lesson.