I hope you’re enjoying the holidays! It’s such a relief to be free of schedules and timetables for a while, right? As we said last week, rest, reconnect, enjoy being among your people. You need it, and you’ve earned it. However, I do want to suggest two things that you may want to spend some … 7 July 2025 – With Time to Spare: Clearing a Tangle and Thinking about Goals

 It’s holiday time, and many of you are going home for the first time since leaving to come to university. As you pack your bags, take a moment to pause and breathe. If you’d rather listen to this newsletter, click here. (This one is slightly different from the usual, more personal and emotional. Try listening.) In this year, starting your … 30 June 2025 – Going Home

You’re almost done with your exams, and you’re exhausted. You must find the strength and the energy – the GRIT – to keep going in the last stretch. How does one do that?! Prof Angela Duckworth of the University of Pennsylvania in America wrote a book called “GRIT: The Power of Passion and Perseverance”. (It … 23 June 2025 – GRIT

It’s exam time. Sometimes you may feel so anxious that you cannot breathe. Let’s see if we can give you some pointers to help you give your very best. 1. Accept your tension as natural. If you were an athlete waiting for the starting whistle, you would experience the same symptoms, but you would see it … 16 June 2025 – Coping with stress

It’s exam time, often a time of stress and tension. Next week we’ll give you some support in dealing with that stress, but for now it’s about the practical stuff: how to give your absolute best when you sit down with the paper. Just one thought, before we get into that. Try not to get … 9 June 2025 – Writing Exams with Confidence

With the mid-year exams so close, sleep is probably the last on your list of priorities at the moment. Let’s talk about that. Brain Science teaches us that physical changes occur in the brain when we learn. It is similar to when you work out in the gym – your muscles change, your body’s physical … 2 JUNE 2025 – SLEEP IN ORDER TO LEARN

Good morning How’s it going with your studies? Have you been keeping to your schedule, using the pomodoro technique and making sure that you are learning actively? Good for you! Here’s another reminder of one the great tools we introduced when we started this newsletter last year, to help you use your study time as effectively as possible. It’s called spaced … 26 May 2025 – Effective Study: Spaced Repetition