Ask Steve to build your KS4 session(s) from the following:

Brain Based Learning Features

Understanding Memory

Retrieval Practice (inc. Mind Maps, Concept Maps, Self-Quizzing, Think-Pair-Share, Flashcards, Brain Dumps, Memory Palace)

Revision Techniques (inc. Dual Coding, Modelling, Elaboration, Concrete Examples, Desirable Difficulties, Cornell Note Taking)

Retrieval + Spacing = Successive Relearning

Building a Revision Timetable

High V Low Value Work

Learning Habits & Trademark Behaviours

Thinking Like an Examiner

Writing with Intent

Decoding Exam Questions & Command Words

Approaching an Exam Series

Exam Specifics e.g. Time Management, Day Before, Day Of…

How to Make Learning Stick (AGES)

Metacognition

Growth Mindset & Academic Buoyancy

Contact Steve on info@inthemindoftheyoung.co.uk for more information and to discuss the needs of your students

The KS4 sessions can complement your current PSHE programme and help provide essential cross-curricular skills for students of all ages. The sessions support aspects of the current Ofsted Inspection Framework including, intent, implementation, impact, behaviours & attitudes and personal development.

The KS4 sessions can also support the Secondary Gatsby Benchmarks or any equivalent measure your school has put in place, in particular ‘addressing the needs of each pupil (3)’ and ‘encounters with employers and employees (5)’.

Fees for KS4 are as follows:

A one-off session (Seminar) delivered to a single class:

60 minutes - £200 / 90 minutes - £250

A one-off session (Conference) delivered to more than 30 students:

60 minutes - £275

Discounts available for block bookings of THREE or more sessions across the academic year

(there is no additional VAT charge at present/travel supplements may apply outside of Herts)

Contact Steve on info@inthemindoftheyoung.co.uk for more information and to book your session(s)

If I am fortunate enough to be invited into your school, it is my aim to ensure that any session delivered to your students carries with it a positive and meaningful impact on student outcomes.

At Key Stage 4, sessions focus predominantly on how I can have an impact on learning, revision and examination performance. One example could be experiencing a change in the way a student thinks about approaching a topic or the manner in which they gain skills and knowledge. Mr M Taylor (Deputy Headteacher, Queens School, Herts) stated that I had ‘engaged and challenged in equal measure, opening the eyes of the students to a variety of brain based approaches to learning and the most effective evidence based revision techniques, all designed to improve outcomes and attainment in the forthcoming GCSE examinations’.

Ultimately, the sessions I deliver with students in Year 10 & 11 are geared towards equipping them with skill-sets that allow them to maximise potential attainment and achievement across their GCSE or iGCSE examinations.

Evaluating the explicit and implicit impact of In the Mind of the Young on your students will be often be dependent on the nature of the sessions being delivered and the frequency at which I am able to visit. I am careful that any credit for direct improvements in student attainment, progress, achievement and outcomes are attributed to the wonderful work carried out each day by school leaders, teachers and support staff. However, it is the aim of In the Mind of the Young to support your curriculum by ensuring that at the end of each session, students feel empowered to be more independent, autonomous and robust learners than when they arrived.

Matt Bromley (Sec Ed) argued that ‘test and qualification outcomes should not be the sole lens through which impact should be viewed’. Whilst I encourage your school to use In the Mind of the Young to provide broader development opportunities for your students, I always aim to strike a balance. Attainment, progress, achievement and outcomes are naturally at the forefront of the messages delivered, but if classroom climate, motivation levels and the development of character, resilience, confidence and academic buoyancy can also be enhanced and impacted by my visit(s), then I very much hope us working together would be considered worthwhile.

Steve