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The burpee challenge
In May this year I started doing a daily exercise activity that every person screws up there face at the thought of. The dreaded burpee! Initially I set out to do 100 a day, then it was 150 a day and then 200 a day. The more burpees I did the prouder I became of this daily activity. My kids were noticing the the commitment I was operating with providing encouragement cheering me on and even started doing some burpees themselves. As Head Performance Coach at HSC CoWorks I am always asking our...
HSC Coworks: First Competition of the HSC 2014!
If you haven't heard already, the HSC Coworks is now on Facebook! We've got a private Facebook group for our HSC 2014 students to share resources, discuss related text ideas and gain motivation for the HSC 2014. It's a long year, and we're here to help even when our...
Lizzy’s 9 Last Minute HSC Tips
Okay, we're there. It's not weeks away anymore, it's days away. Wait - it's a weekend away. Before you move to Antarctica to live a happy and simple (if cold) life away from the world of exam booklets and Hamlet and energy drinks and all the other delights of the HSC,...
Where Is Your HSC Focus?
The HSC is as much an endurance test as it is an intellectual challenge, and like a physical endurance test, where you prime your body, for the HSC, you prime your mind. The principles of brain-based coaching, which is what we do at HSC co-works, are directly related...
Struggling Is Essential For A Great HSC Result
In the final stages of HSC campaign 2013 there is only one way to be studying in order to be fully prepared for the exams that lie ahead. One of our favourite quotes at the office is "without struggle there is no progress" which we have put an HSC slant on it to "if...
Neuroscience and the HSC
HSC CoWorks is always been looking for better learning outcomes for our students. We are tremendously proud of our record in helping 1000's of students achieve excellent or at least far better results than schools or parents have expected of them. I (Fergus, Director...
A Successful 21st Century Operator?
I don't think that there is anyone who would disagree with the fact that we live in times of enormous change and as an HSC coaching and HSC tuition centre we are at the forefront of this change as we prepare our students for the new economy that we live in. We believe...
Con-graduations!
Hi everyone, Well, it's been a big two weeks. By today, all of our Year 12 students will have graduated and will never have to wear a school uniform again. Unless you plan on wearing it just for fun that is. Congratulations everyone! Thirteen years in the making and...
Bondi Junction Renovations – December 2013
From December 2013 our Bondi Junction tuition centre will be getting a renovation to match our extremely popular with the students Mosman tuition centre. The metres and metres of idea paint(whiteboard paint) on the walls of Mosman have been a huge hit with our...
What Do You Want To Achieve Before The HSC?
Hi everyone, There's not long now. We're all already looking towards the holidays, Â with the trials now firmly behind us. It's the final countdown! Let's face it, not many huge things were invented in a month. Facebook, for example, began as a series of really bad...
HSC CoWorks New Team Member
The HSC CoWorks will now be a daily feature of the bumper to bumper traffic on Military Road as our Business Manager and resident life coach Jesse drives from his home in Manly to our HSC tuition centre in Mosman to our HSC tuition centre in Bondi Junction and back...
Hashtag #noregrets2013
Hi Everyone, As we enter the final stages of HSC 2013 one of my roles at HSC CoWorks Bondi Junction and Mosman is to help ensure that students walk out of their final HSC exam with no regrets about the amount of effort they put into their HSC campaign. With 50% of...
Crucial Lead-up Weeks Before The Big Exams
Hi everyone, Final Note on Trials 2013 Almost all of our students have finished, or are just about to finish, their trial HSC exams for 2013. I'm not going to lie - it's been a pretty tough couple of weeks for everyone, and the work and the results we've seen in the...
Outside Your Comfort Zone Is Where The Extra Marks Can Be Found
One of my roles at the HSC CoWorks is to make our students feel comfortable outside their comfort zone as that's where the extra marks are to be found. Over the last week especially I have had five different students tell me that they can't remember all of the...
Freaking Out After Trials?
We know that these weeks are some of the hardest weeks of the HSC to keep motivated and keep pushing towards your study goals. You've just finished your trial exams, which should mean you get to relax, and now you're waiting on those results. Not to mention...
HSC Trials 2013: You Did It!
What a great two weeks we've seen from our students here at Mosman, with most of our students finishing up trials in the last few days. Take the weekend to wind down, to de-compress, and let yourself relax a bit. You earned it. What we always remind our HSC...
Mosman Open Days: Cutting-Edge Tuition for the HSC 2014
HSC Co-Works Mosman is opening its doors for parents and students to come meet our team and see what it is that we do that gets our students working hard for amazing results. We're running two open days for students who are completing the HSC in 2014 to come in The...
Even Our Walls Are Motivating
At the HSC CoWorks Mosman we are strong believers in the power of a great HSC result to open the doors of opportunity. To do well in the HSC and attain an ATAR that will provide lots of options at University students need to have the motivation to want to do well as...
HSC Manifesto
A few months back I was shown the Holister Manifesto which is a guide to how to live a better life(as well as being a clever branding exercise) and I wrote an HSC Manifesto but never got around to publishing it. Our Mosman HSC tuition centre is based on these...
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wool / A Room of One’s Own seminar
11:15am to 12:15pm "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf/A Room of One's Own" Use promo code: coworksseminar for your free ticket (only available for the first 5 people to register) otherwise $40. "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf/A Room of One's Own" preview to our online...
Need Help With Pride And Prejudice/Letters to Alice??
This Sunday Fergus will be running two 60 minute seminars for "Pride and Prejudice/Letters to Alice". The first 5 people to register for the seminar will get a free ticket normally worth $40! 10am to 11am "Pride and Prejudice/Letters to Alice" Use promo code:...
