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All Videos- 6th form tutor time

Importance of Year 12: a foundation for Year 13 - video

Video: (4 mins) outlining why it's importance to work hard from day 1 as it makes the 2nd year so much easier and less stressful

Importance of Year 12: predicted grades - video

Video (3 mins) in which students share their experience of how internal tests and work set throughout year 12 helped towards the evidence on which their predicted grades were based

Organisation - video

Video (max 4 mins) of top performing A Level students focusing on being organised in the sixth form

Note-taking 1: tips and skills - video

Video (3 mins 31 secs) on tips and the importance of taking notes early plus a 17-page booklet on how to take notes

A-Level Mindset - video

A-Level Mindset and growth mindset video and tutorial exercise for sixth formers

Putting in the hours - video

Video of top performing A Level students who outline how many hours they study to be able to achieve top grades

Procrastination 1: Routines and Discipline - video

Procrastination 2: Phones and Social Media - video

Procrastination: Social media and phones - a source of distraction and what to do about it

Attending lessons: valuing every one - video

​Video (max 4 mins) top performing students explain why it's important to value every lesson to encourage better attendance and punctuality​

Sleep is essential - video

Video in which successful sixth form students pass on advice about sleep being key to being able to study well

Habit Changer - video

Video (4 mins 39s) Habit Changing strategies based on the research outlined in 'The Power of Habit' by Charles Duhigg

Revision 1: improving your understanding - video

Video (4 mins max) Revision: improving your understanding - top performing students focus on time spent genuinely trying to understand all aspects of the specification

Revision 3: application and practise - video

Video (max 4 mins) advice about the importance of past paper questions, mark schemes and practise

Motivating yourself to keep working - video

Successful sixth form students pass on advice about how to keep motivated when approach examinations. Discipline and routines seem to be key.

Making technology useful for studying - video

Video (4 mins max) Making technology useful for studying - lots of ideas to embrace technology for learning

Using mobile phones to support learning - video

Video (max 4 mins) in which students discuss the way mobile phones can actually be helpful for studying

Emotional side of learning: feeling overwhelmed video

Video (4 mins) - successful students discuss feeling overwhelmed in Year 13 and how to cope.

Asking for help: friends - video

Short video of successful sixth form students passing on advice about the importance of friendship groups and peer-to-peer support

Asking for help: teachers - video

Video in which successful A-Level students encourage current sixth form students to ask for help when needed. Fosters the growth mindset in that support is seen as key to making progress.

Mental Health 1: Stress, communication and support - video

Mental Health 1 - Stress, communication and support

Mental Health 2 - Reducing stress - video

Mental Health 2 - Reducing stress

Mental health 3: staying mentally and physically healthy to cope with stress - video

Mental health 3: staying mentally and physically healthy to cope with stress

Perfectionism 1: Exploring perfectionism - video

Students share their experiences of being a perfectionist in this 5 mins video

Perfectionism 2: Finding solutions video

Students share how they tried to avoid and tackle unhelpful perfectionism

Feedback 1: Responding To Feedback (5 mins) - video

Students discuss how they felt receiving feedback on their work, tests and mock exams

Feedback 2: Making the most of feedback (5 mins) - video

Students discuss how to seek feedback and use it effectively

Leap from Year 12 to Year 13 - video

The pressure of the first term of year 13 is outlined (trial exams, personal statements, choosing universities, step to 2nd year work, EPQ)

EPQ - Challenges and advice - video

EPQ - Challenges and advice - 4 mins video

Looking back: making the most of sixth form - video

Video (4 mins) students in their first year at university reflect on what they realise they valued about sixth form

Thinking ahead: making the most of sixth form - video

Video (4 mins) students in their first year at university reflect on what sixth formers can do to prepare for university.

Next steps 2: Choosing and finding apprenticeships - video

Students share how they went about finding apprenticeship opportunities

Next steps 3: Applying for apprenticeships - video

Students share their experiences of securing a top apprenticeship

Next Steps 4: Considering university - video

Students discuss their rationale for choosing the university route

Next Steps 5: Choosing the right university course - video

Students share their thoughts on how and why they chose their particular university course

Applying to Oxford and Cambridge - video

Applying to Oxford and Cambridge - video

Medicine: advice for those applying - video

Video (5 mins) students reflect on reasons for applying, personal statement, work experience and selection tests

Oxbridge Interviews - video.

Video (4 mins) Oxbridge Interviews - students discuss the approaches they adopted to their interview.

Importance of visiting universities - video

Importance of visiting universities - 4 mins video.

Making your insurance choice for university - video

Video version and PPT version - understanding how cognitive dissonance theory can help guide the choice

Budgeting at university - video

Video (5 mins) students in their first year at university pass on advice about managing money

Accommodation at university: the range of experiences - Video

Video (5 mins) Undergraduates discuss university accommodation at the end of their first term at university​

Starting University: preparation and the first day - VIDEO

Video (5 mins) students in their first year at university reflect on how they prepared for university and pass on tips for your first day at university.

Starting university: Freshers' Week video

Starting university: Freshers' Week

First term challenges at university - video

University preparation: first term challenges VIDEO (5 mins)

Choosing a sixth form: why stay on? video

Video (max 4 mins) in which students explain why they chose their school sixth form

Barriers to learning

Feedback 1: Responding To Feedback (5 mins) - video

Students discuss how they felt receiving feedback on their work, tests and mock exams

Feedback 2: Making the most of feedback (5 mins) - video

Students discuss how to seek feedback and use it effectively

Procrastination 2: Phones and Social Media - video

Procrastination: Social media and phones - a source of distraction and what to do about it

Choosing a sixth form

Choosing a sixth form: why stay on? video

Video (max 4 mins) in which students explain why they chose their school sixth form

EPQ

EPQ - Challenges and advice - video

EPQ - Challenges and advice - 4 mins video

Induction Year 12

Rate your independent learning skills - questionnaire

Rate your independent learning skills - sixth form questionnaire

Note-taking 1: tips and skills - video

Video (3 mins 31 secs) on tips and the importance of taking notes early plus a 17-page booklet on how to take notes

Step 1 - POWERPOINT WITH THE TASK - note-taking Cornell style

POWERPOINT with the note-taking task and links students need

Step 2 - Powerpoint - making notes from a lecture, podcast or video

POWERPOINT - download to use the links. The task is also explained in the video version.

GCSE to Year 12 - transition checklist

GCSE to Year 12 transition checklist

Organisation - video

Video (max 4 mins) of top performing A Level students focusing on being organised in the sixth form

Design your weekly study schedule

Design your weekly study schedule - activity for GCSE or Sixth Form tutor time

Sell this!

Sell this! Induction activity for Year 12's starting in September

Rebus challenges - quick tutorial time activity to get students thinking

Rebus challenges - quick tutorial time activity to get students thinking

Leap to to Year 12

Leap to Year 13

Leap from Year 12 to Year 13 - video

The pressure of the first term of year 13 is outlined (trial exams, personal statements, choosing universities, step to 2nd year work, EPQ)

Emotional side of learning: feeling overwhelmed video

Video (4 mins) - successful students discuss feeling overwhelmed in Year 13 and how to cope.

Mental health

Perfectionism 2: Finding solutions video

Students share how they tried to avoid and tackle unhelpful perfectionism

Mental Health 1: Stress, communication and support - video

Mental Health 1 - Stress, communication and support

Mental Health 2 - Reducing stress - video

Mental Health 2 - Reducing stress

Mental health 3: staying mentally and physically healthy to cope with stress - video

Mental health 3: staying mentally and physically healthy to cope with stress

Asking for help: teachers - video

Video in which successful A-Level students encourage current sixth form students to ask for help when needed. Fosters the growth mindset in that support is seen as key to making progress.

Asking for help: friends - video

Short video of successful sixth form students passing on advice about the importance of friendship groups and peer-to-peer support

Sleep is essential - video

Video in which successful sixth form students pass on advice about sleep being key to being able to study well

Emotional side of learning: feeling overwhelmed video

Video (4 mins) - successful students discuss feeling overwhelmed in Year 13 and how to cope.

Perfectionism 1: Exploring perfectionism - video

Students share their experiences of being a perfectionist in this 5 mins video

Parent advice

Procrastination

Procrastination 1: Routines and Discipline - video

Procrastination 2: Phones and Social Media - video

Procrastination: Social media and phones - a source of distraction and what to do about it

Revision

Revision 1: improving your understanding - video

Video (4 mins max) Revision: improving your understanding - top performing students focus on time spent genuinely trying to understand all aspects of the specification

Revision 3: application and practise - video

Video (max 4 mins) advice about the importance of past paper questions, mark schemes and practise

Motivating yourself to keep working - video

Successful sixth form students pass on advice about how to keep motivated when approach examinations. Discipline and routines seem to be key.

Making technology useful for studying - video

Video (4 mins max) Making technology useful for studying - lots of ideas to embrace technology for learning

Using mobile phones to support learning - video

Video (max 4 mins) in which students discuss the way mobile phones can actually be helpful for studying

Study skills

Importance of Year 12: a foundation for Year 13 - video

Video: (4 mins) outlining why it's importance to work hard from day 1 as it makes the 2nd year so much easier and less stressful

Importance of Year 12: predicted grades - video

Video (3 mins) in which students share their experience of how internal tests and work set throughout year 12 helped towards the evidence on which their predicted grades were based

Organisation - video

Video (max 4 mins) of top performing A Level students focusing on being organised in the sixth form

Note-taking 1: tips and skills - video

Video (3 mins 31 secs) on tips and the importance of taking notes early plus a 17-page booklet on how to take notes

Asking for help: teachers - video

Video in which successful A-Level students encourage current sixth form students to ask for help when needed. Fosters the growth mindset in that support is seen as key to making progress.

Asking for help: friends - video

Short video of successful sixth form students passing on advice about the importance of friendship groups and peer-to-peer support

A-Level Mindset - video

A-Level Mindset and growth mindset video and tutorial exercise for sixth formers

Putting in the hours - video

Video of top performing A Level students who outline how many hours they study to be able to achieve top grades

Feedback 1: Responding To Feedback (5 mins) - video

Students discuss how they felt receiving feedback on their work, tests and mock exams

Feedback 2: Making the most of feedback (5 mins) - video

Students discuss how to seek feedback and use it effectively

Using your access code

Uni prep

Next steps 2: Choosing and finding apprenticeships - video

Students share how they went about finding apprenticeship opportunities

Next Steps 4: Considering university - video

Students discuss their rationale for choosing the university route

Next Steps 5: Choosing the right university course - video

Students share their thoughts on how and why they chose their particular university course

Applying to Oxford and Cambridge - video

Applying to Oxford and Cambridge - video

Oxbridge Interviews - video.

Video (4 mins) Oxbridge Interviews - students discuss the approaches they adopted to their interview.

Medicine: advice for those applying - video

Video (5 mins) students reflect on reasons for applying, personal statement, work experience and selection tests

Thinking ahead: making the most of sixth form - video

Video (4 mins) students in their first year at university reflect on what sixth formers can do to prepare for university.

Importance of visiting universities - video

Importance of visiting universities - 4 mins video.

Budgeting at university - video

Video (5 mins) students in their first year at university pass on advice about managing money

Starting University: preparation and the first day - VIDEO

Video (5 mins) students in their first year at university reflect on how they prepared for university and pass on tips for your first day at university.

Starting university: Freshers' Week video

Starting university: Freshers' Week

First term challenges at university - video

University preparation: first term challenges VIDEO (5 mins)