When thinking about potential employment for the future, it is a great idea to stay up to date with what we refer to as local labour market information.
Check out an update from December below.
When thinking about potential employment for the future, it is a great idea to stay up to date with what we refer to as local labour market information.
Check out an update from December below.
From using them for communication, work, shopping and entertainment, devices such as smartphones, laptops and the rest are now deeply ingrained into modern society. Small wonder, then, that young people – who’ve grown up surrounded by such gadgets – can sometimes struggle to put them down, switch them off or keep themselves occupied without them.
While limiting our screen time may require a great deal of restraint, the effort can be rewarded with significant benefits to our physical and mental health. Our #WakeUpWednesday guide has simple tips for helping to manage the amount of screen time in your household – encouraging the whole family to spend more quality time together and live in the moment.
Please check out our student LEARN> REVISE>TEST website CLICK THIS LINK NOW ……….. https://sites.google.com/dukes.ncea.org.uk/learnrevisetest/home Please click these tabs for Duke’s 3 Steps to Effective Examination Preparation.
LEARN should be done before the revision process begins. It ensures that you are organised and begins to put the information into your memory.
LEARN – The Right Revision Environment
Duke’s Secondary Term Time Revision Timetable Blank
TEST your knowledge with quizzes and questions to move information from your short term to long term memory. The more you test the more you will remember.
North East Creativity Collaborative Network
The North East Creativity Collaborative Network (NECCN) is a professional learning community of twelve schools working together to test a range of innovative practices in teaching for creativity, with the explicit intention that learning is shared to facilitate system-wide change. Working alongside existing school structures, Headteachers, Creative Leads and wider teaching staff are co-developing creative strategy and pedagogy through a series of enquiries and evaluating the impact both on their own practice, and on pupils.
The network was established in 2021/2022 as part of a National Arts Council England funded three-year pilot programme consisting of eight regional collaboratives, in response to the Durham Commission recommendations. The commission looked at the role creativity and creative thinking should play in the education of young people. It was set up in response to the strength of opinion across the business, education, and public sectors that young people are emerging into a world in which the skills and knowledge of the current education system will no longer be sufficient.
In September 2023, we were thrilled to welcome five new schools to the collaborative:
Hotspur Primary School
Shillbottle Primary School
Greenhough Primary School
Benton Dene Primary School
Duke’s Secondary School
The schools in the North East Creativity Collaborative are led by Cragside Primary School. The other schools in the network are:
Duchess’s Community High School
Seahouses Primary
New York Primary
Fordley Primary
Cambois Primary
Sunningdale School
The NECCN have a shared understanding and vocabulary for creativity which was co-developed by Lucas, Claxton and Spencer (2012) at the Centre of Real-World Learning at Winchester University together with Creativity, Culture and Education (CCE). The five-dimensional model called the Creative Habits of Mind supports schools and teachers to understand how creativity can be developed in all subjects and age phases and that it’s a vital capability which supports children and young people’s learning.
The NECCN is working in partnership with CCE, an international foundation based in the region with expertise in creativity in education alongside eminent consultants such as Professor Bill Lucas and Professor Louise Stoll.
Seven out of ten parents use technical controls on their child’s devices to manage access to content. Such safeguards can be an enormous asset: helping parents and carers to manage what their child might encounter online while allowing young people to happily use their new gizmo to start exploring the digital world.
Though extremely useful once in place, such parental controls vary from device to device and can often be confusing or difficult to set up. This week’s #WakeUpWednesday guide outlines what defences are available on some of the most popular devices around: advice that will probably come in particularly handy at this time of year!
What techniques do you use for revision?
-I would print off as many mark schemes and past papers as I could find. I would answer or plan answers to all the questions then self mark them. This is the best way of learning exam technique and how the exam board wants you to answer questions, make sure you read the examiner’s comments so you know what to do/ not to do. Some subjects like science can reuse questions from previous years, so if you have practiced past papers you will know the model answers and get full marks to these questions.
-Make your revision materials as you go instead of leaving it to the last minute, as you won’t have time to actually make them. I used to make revision cards at the end of every lesson, so it only took 5 minutes each day rather than writing them out for hours in exam season.
-When making your revision materials make sure you look at the spec and cover every spec point. I used to do this to make ‘cheat sheets’ of all the information I needed to know for an exam, so it is condensed and all in one place.
-Do not spend hours upon hours revising – you won’t be productive. Set a 30 minute timer and get as much work done as possible with no distractions. Then get up and have a 5-10 minute break – in a different room, don’t stay seated at your desk. Come back and do another 30 minutes of work – on a different topic/ subject if possible, and continue to cycle. After 2/3 30 minute periods have a longer break.
-use revision apps like quizlet – you can make your own revision cards/ questions or use ones that other people have already made. It also tests you on the information in various different ways which helps to make it more memorable and easier to learn.
-Teach someone else the information – you have to understand the information before you can teach it!
-Get a blank sheet of paper and use the spec to give yourself headings for each spec point. Using textbooks/ notes, write down as much information as you can. Have a 15 minute break then come back and try to do the same thing but from memory, without any notes. Then fill in any missing pieces of information in a different colour pen using the first sheet. Anything in the second colour is information you need to revise.
1 piece of key advice you would provide for students in Y11?
-get organized – make your revision materials now and test yourself regularly.
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