{"id":407,"date":"2024-06-10T08:00:19","date_gmt":"2024-06-10T08:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aperkins.me\/?p=407"},"modified":"2024-07-20T13:36:21","modified_gmt":"2024-07-20T13:36:21","slug":"sleep-in-the-sixth-form-common-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aperkins.me\/th\/2024\/06\/10\/sleep-in-the-sixth-form-common-room\/","title":{"rendered":"Sleep, Sleep, Sleep – those drowsy eyes in the Sixth Form Common Room – Rumination (5)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Oh! those Obama summer reading lists, or are they Christmas reading lists! Well I definitely got Chip War<\/a> off of one if his lists. And maybe for this reason last summer on my normal reading binge, i picked up (well browsed) and bought the book \"Why we sleep\" by Matthew Walker.<\/a> It may have been those constant unhelpful mutterings in my ear from fellow colleagues \"...those sixth formers are always asleep in that Common Room, I wonder how that is helping with their studies?\"<\/em><\/p>

Well what a read it was, and it simply made me consider and reflect on how little over 15+ years of supporting sixth formers had I not in anyway (besides the occasional comment) focused on sleep having such a dramatic affect in almost every area of our lives, and so teenagers lives. By luck I was rewriting my Core curriculum with a strong emphasis and focus on metacognition, self regulation and felt immediately this would help fit in and support my wonderful sixth formers.<\/p>\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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Shocking quotations like the one to the right I thought would jump them into action, and so I went through a plan to introduce the science behind sleeping and then to monitor our students and their sleeping habits.<\/p>

As always with any new initiative it was crucial that the process to introduce, monitor and ultimately change students behaviour' s was well through through and really did make students over the whole year think and reflect on their habits.<\/p>\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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\u201cIf you don\u2019t sleep the very first night after learning, you lose the chance to consolidate those memories, even if you get lots of \u201ccatch-up\u201d sleep thereafter. In terms of memory, then, sleep is not like the bank. You cannot accumulate a debt and hope to pay it off at a later point in time. Sleep for memory consolidation is an all-or-nothing event.\u201d<\/p>\t<\/blockquote>\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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