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Year 9 & 10: Is Your Teen Struggling to Stay Motivated?
As parents, we all want to see our children thrive, not just academically but emotionally and socially too. Yet many parents may be noticing two trends in their household particularly as their child moves into Year 9&10: a drop in motivation for schoolwork and a growing attachment to devices, gaming, and social media. It’s a challenge we didn’t have to navigate ourselves as teenagers and it’s leaving many families wondering how to find the right balance between encouraging productive study...
Introducing Saturday Night Lockdowns!
Starting May 31st 2014, the HSC CoWorks will be kicking off new concept "Saturday Night Lockdowns". With the start of Term 2 and less than 170 days to go until the final HSC exams, now is the time for every student to be putting everything they have into their studies...
Term 2 Takes Off!
Term 2 has kicked off and it is increasingly important to prepare yourself for the next step of the Mt HSC climb as you look towards your final set of assessments and start to prepare for Term 3’s Trial Exams. It is now that the students with the better organisational...
Cool Company To Work For #13: MindValley
MindValley is an entrepreneur think tank, that invests in, creates and builds businesses that further its goal to push humanity further. With collaborative processes, ones that involve team meetings on bean bags, weekly 'awesome meetings' and superhero awards given to...
HSC Economics Update: Trade Agreements and Blocs
Following on from my last economics blog about International organisations affecting trade, I thought it would be good to continue to look at trade and globalisation. This week we look at trade agreements and blocs that Australia is involved in. These are useful for...
Year 11 Zone: Preparing Yourself For Year 12 Starts Now!
Many students take Year 11 as a breeze-through year; ‘it doesn’t count for anything’, ‘I’m saving myself for the HSC’. At HSC CoWorks we strongly disagree with these sentiments. Year 11 is a vital year to bed down study behaviours, commit to the strategies that HSC...
Three Strategies For Winning n Term 2
No doubt you have already been told from one of the team at HSC CoWorks that Term 2 is the most demanding of all the HSC terms so in this post I would like to share some strategies which will support climbers of Mount HSC through to keep on climbing despite the...
Out Of Your Comfort Zone Is Where The Extra Marks Lie
Nothing Ventured Nothing Gained Being stretched and challenged moves you out of your comfort zone and into an area where GREAT things can happen. For our students to achieve their best HSC results it is absolutely vital that they get comfortable with feeling...
Getting All Philosophical About The HSC
Watching the amazing new series "Cosmos" on National Geographic Channel it has got me thinking about how short our time on earth really is. In the context of our HSC Coaching business I started thinking about a way to share with our students how the next 180 days,...
Cool Company To Work For #12 : Bauer Media Group
Are you interested in working in media and communications, journalism, graphic design, fashion, marketing or management? Then the Bauer Media Group has something for you. Bauer Media Group is Australia's number one magazine publisher. They publish magazines such as:...
HSC Economics Update: International Organisations Affecting Trade
There are many world organisations that affect international trade. They each have their specific role, but as a whole are responsible for the governance of trade between countries to ensure that it is done is a fair and equitable manner. 1. World Trade Organisation ...
The Next 30 Days Could Be The Most Important 30 Days Of Your HSC Campaign
This may sound ridiculous given we are still 3 months out from the Trial Exams and 6 months out from the HSC however these next 30 days will lay the foundation for the steeper and more challenging sections of the climb up famous Mount HSC. Approaching Basecamp 2 (end...
Brain Based Learning And Your HSC
Brain based learning is a system that aims to deepen our thinking and learning to ensure better outcomes not only in the HSC as HSC CoWorks use it but across all facets of our lives and future endeavours such as employment. With this, it aims to tackle the challenges...
HSC Economics Update: Exchange Rates
Exchange rates are constantly changing according to the global demand and supply of currencies across the globe. An exchange rate refers to the rate at which a unit of domestic currency is exchanged for a given amount of a foreign currency (Riley 2011). It is both a...
Cool Company To Work For #11: BMF
Are you interested in advertising, graphic design, business, public relations or communications? Then BMF might be the perfect place for you! BMF is a world leading agency, direct marketer, promotional agency, media company and digital shop based in Sydney and...
Historian Quotes For 20th Century Germany
THIS ARTICLE WAS UPDATED IN 2017 CLICK HERE TO VIEW UPDATED VERSION 17 years ago I sat my HSC and was lucky enough to receive HSC coaching from Fergus (who is also my Dad) and as a result Modern History became my favourite subject and the topic of 20th Century Germany...
Lessons Learnt From The HSC
For many, the HSC is a game that must be played as a mark of completing 13 years of education. With this, focus is often lost on what the HSC signifies and teaches you. With the benefit of hindsight, I have come to realise that there is much more to the HSC than the...
Cool Company To Work For #10 : AIME Mentoring
The not for profit sector in Australia is a vibrant one with thousands of people volunteering their time to a multitude of causes. AIME is a mentoring program set up by two Sydney University students that links university students with indigenous high school students....
HSC Economics Update: Economic Issues Part 2
Topic 3 of the HSC Economics Course looks at 6 economic issues in an Australian context. These issues are what pervades the content of the daily news and as such, there is so much information that can be included in essays beyond the theory that is in the textbooks....
Cool Company To Work For #9: Sweaty Betty PR
Public relations is a fast-moving, exciting industry that employs people across a wide range of areas including business, writing, design, fashion, IT and much more! Sweaty Betty PR is headed by Roxy Jacenko, who founded the company when she was just 24 years old....
Playing the ‘Game of School’
“The agreement between teacher and students to exhibit a façade of orderly purposefulness is a conspiracy for the Least, the least hassle for anyone” – Ted Sizer, Horace’s compromise (cited in The Passionate Teacher, Robert L. Fried). The constant dilemma that we see...
