Personal Study Rationale

Personal Study reinforces and extends what is learned in school. It is set for the following purposes:

- To encourage all students to develop the regular practice of independent study
- To promote thinking skills
- To promote perseverance and self-discipline
- To practise skills learnt in class
- To facilitate progress through enabling more work to be covered
- To enable students to use resources which may not be readily available in the classroom
- To facilitate the setting of differentiated tasks for individuals who may work faster or slower than others in the class

All Personal Study should

- Integrate with classwork
- Be tailored to fit individual learning needs
- Help students to learn independently
- Be regularly and constructively marked

The Personal Study timetable

Each year a Personal Study timetable is issued to every class and students should copy their individual Personal Study timetable into their planners.

The purpose of the Personal Study timetable is to help students organise their study pattern, to enable them to fit it in with other commitments and to spread the load evenly over the two weeks.

In order to try and create an evenly loaded timetable it is inevitable that Personal Study sometimes falls on a day when there is no lesson for a particular subject; when this happens Personal Study will be set in the last lesson prior to the Personal Study.

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