6. Students with a balanced approach to life will make
healthy choices :
• Sleep regularly and well
• Eat a balanced diet
• Exercise regularly
• Drink to stay hydrated

9. Sleep Cycle Apps
• Sleep is when your brain recharges to
enable it to think effectively
• The last REM early in the morning is
when your memory is filed into long
term memory. This is also when you
dream.
• Reviewing your notes just before you go
to bed and again in the morning may
help you remember more effectively.
• An interesting App, measures your deep
and shallow sleep and allows you to set
an alarm to wake you up at the optimum
time so you have the best chance of
feeling alert.

10. Enemies of a good sleep!

11. Turn your mobile phone
OFF!

12. Enemies of a good sleep!
• 95 per cent of people surveyed said
they played videogames, watched
television, or used smartphones or
laptop computers in the hour before
going to bed.
• Being bathed in the glow of monitors
or handset screens suppresses the
release of sleep-promoting hormone
melatonin and enhances alertness,
making it more difficult to sleep.

14. The more balanced your diet
the more balanced
and effective your brain
function will be .

15. Good Food Rap

16. Everyone’s getting into the act!
Michelle Obama’s favourite line from the rap!

17. Brain Food

18. Best brain foods!

19. Or do you feel like this!

21. Soft drinks have a LOT of sugar!

23. Drink
1.5 litres
of water
per day

24. Energy drinks CAN kill!
MGS boys buying 2 nodoze and 4 red bull at 7/11

25. Kids should NOT drink energy drinks!

27. The following are all examples of healthy exercising:
TIP!!

28. In test or examination you have to do 3 things:
1. Remember the content of the topic
2. Understand the topic
3. Apply the skills and techniques of the topic to different types
of questions

29. In test or examination you have to do 3 things:
1. Remember the content of the topic
2. Understand the topic
3. Apply the skills and techniques of the topic to different types
of questions
There are 3 aspects to being able to do this:
1. Make study notes or summaries
2. Learn the information
3. Practise the skills of the subject

30. Preparation for exams starts
well before you officially start
“studying”.
1. How well you paid attention in class when the concepts were being taught
2. How well you understood the concepts being taught in class
3. How well you have completed homework and assignments along the way
4. How well you have kept and organised notes for that topic or subject
5. Whether you have made study notes or summaries for that topic
6. Whether you looked over your notes soon after class

31. Curve of forgetting
Curve of forgetting
• Before class we know 0%
• After class we know 100%
• Day 2 we know 30% to 50%
• Day 7 we know 15% to 20%
• Day 30 we know 2% to 3%
What can we do to help us remember?
• First night spend 10 minutes going
over work from class - back to 100%
• Day 7 spend 5 minute going over
work again – back to 100%
• Day 30 spend 3 minutes going over
the work again – back to 100%
https://uwaterloo.ca/counselling-services/curve-forgetting

33. Click
here
Year 9 should do 1.5 to 2
hours study per night and 3
hours at the weekend.

34. Weekly Planner
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35. Flexible approach!
• GET INTO A ROUTINE!
• Work in half hour blocks
• Set priorities at the beginning of the night– homework,
assignments, memorising
• Try to work at the same time each day. Can be difficult
because of different sport and other commitments.
• Finish all homework before watching TV, social media,
phones i.e. work before fun

37. Just can’t do it !!!!????!!
• Have you got a suitable place to study?
• Have you eliminated distractions?
• Do you have bad habits?
• Do you take break, drink and eat snacks to keep
your concentration up?

38. Sometimes still feel stuck?

39. Get unstuck!!
• MAD Maths
• Look it up!
• Teacher
• Parents
• Ask a friend
OR
• yourtutor

40. Click here
Click here

41. • Year 9 great first trial
• Year 9 great :)
• Year 10 Michael is amazing, 10/10
• Year 9 Concise answer to a direct question.
Useful insight.
• Year 9 It was very helpful to have someone
else opinion on my question
• Year 9 very good help from tutor, timely
and useful
• Year 9 awesome I struggled and he made it
easy for me to understand
• Year 9 short and sweet
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