Tips on surviving year 12

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Here are some simple and effective hints and tips you can do that will help your teenager move through Year 12 more smoothly.

You don’t need to be an expert on education to help them through, you just need to be involved and support them.

What can you do?

• Have a contact at the school who knows your child – let them know you care about your child’s progress.
• Know what options your child realistically has.
• Feed them plenty of fresh, nutritious meals.
• Monitor their health, both physical and emotional.
• Help them organise their time.
• Get extra academic support if they need it.
• Keep the home as harmonious as practical.
• Allow them to opt out of home duties when they need to.
• Keep the communication channels open all year.

Encourage your child to:

• Keep up to date with assignments.
• Seek help when they need it – that’s what teachers are for!
• Change subjects early if the need arises.
• Be organised and to draw up a study timetable.
• Eat sensibly and keep playing sport.
• Get enough sleep.
• Have realistic goals.
• Have a fallback option if the first choice of course or university isn’t possible.

Create a study plan

• List all the activities your child is involved in.
• Work out how much study time is needed – some kids need more than others.
• Break the day into appropriate time spans.
• Include sleep, meals and travel time.
• Schedule in free time for watching TV or socialising.
• Allow for breaks and exercise.
• Expect differences for weekdays and weekends.
• Make sure the plan is flexible and workable.

Tips on planning

• Students should aim to get up and go to bed at about the same time all week.
• Time slots are flexible and will depend on the activities and priorities of the week, for example, allow for music concerts, movies, other sport or school commitments. Socialising can still be part of life!

We have provided study plan timetable templates to help get you started!

• Template 1 (BLANK)
• Template 2
  
• Template 3

For more information, read more here

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