‘Aspire to Success’ Motivational Programme
A number of our S4 pupils will be attending ‘Aspire to Success’ workshops today with Mr. Brian Costello, Director of the Headstrong organisation.
This is the second of six sessions which Brian will be offering each group – three pre-prelims and three pre-SQA diet – with the aim of ensuring that the pupils participating realise their full academic potential, whilst developing coping strategies and elaborated life skills.
The programme is flexible to meet the needs of the individual pupils and the dynamics of each group, but will explore the themes highlighted below, namely:
• Open dialogue with group around fears and pressures of study and examinations
• 40% Student led, actively teaching strategies to deal with the concerns of the group, 60% pre-planned material
• In-depth teaching of specific learning and study skills discussed during assembly session
• Provide a platform for pupils to actively discuss blocks to study, aspiration and success
The programme was piloted with a group of pupils from last year’s S4 and both the results in the SQA examinations and, indeed, the feedback from participants was extremely positive.
More information on the initiative can be found here.
