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What are the Thinking Ambassadors?
The Thinking Ambassadors are a collective of students within the school who monitor how the thinking tools, ranging from Thinkers Keys, Thinking Maps, Hats and Holcombe Habits, are being utilised. We aim to broaden the ways in which the Thinking Tools are applicable since they are key in not only enhancing academic skills. We are supporting the new Holcombe Charter, both inside and outside of the academic setting and in real life situations. The people who are currently the Thinking Ambassadors are as followed:
If you are interested in the Thinking Ambassadors, please go to S16 or M14 on Thursday to speak to either Ms Cook or Mrs Ortega. It is a brilliant opportunity to improve your thinking skills which can help you significantly with your academics and, in particular, revision!
What do the Thinking Ambassadors do?
As Thinking Ambassadors, we work to make sure that every student knows what the Thinking Tools are and how they can use them to benefit their learning.
We believe that the Thinking tools are resources that are extremely beneficial for a student’s learning and revision. Focussing in on the revision part of learning, here at Holcombe, we prepare students on how to revise so that they get the most out of their revision/study time and walk away with the most valuable knowledge that they can gather from their private studies.
This is done through the encouragement of the use of Thinking Tools. For example, the Thinking Maps are an excellent way of laying out your revision in a format that has been scientifically proven to help students with their studies by organising it in a way that makes it easy for the brain to process and remember.
Red Hat: Feelings
Blue Hat: Thinking
Yellow Hat: Strengths
Green Hat: Creativity & New Ideas
White Hat: Information
Black Hat: Negatives and Judgement
Thinking Ambassadors also assist students in their use of thinking maps, for example:
Circle maps, which students use to describe an event or item, with the title in the centre.
As you can in the maps above, students also use a frame of reference (FOR) to help them explain deeper, how they have reached their conclusions and their sources.
These thinking maps allow students to organise their learning in a way that makes it easy to reflect on later, for revision.
How YOU Can Become a Thinking Ambassador
Becoming a Thinking Ambassador is a great opportunity as it allows you to become more involved in how we learn here at Holcombe. Being a Thinking Ambassador also means that you can further advance your revision as you will have a more in-depth understanding of how to learn and remember knowledge effectively using the Thinking Tools.
If students have any further questions feel free to find us in school, or email Ms Cook and/or Mrs Ortega at heather.cook@holcombegrammar.tsat.ukHelena.ortegaizquierdo@holcombegrammar.tsat.uk