Expert shares clever tips for encouraging students to study at home on snow days

Teens may lack motivation to study at home during the festive period – and inevitable snow days – but MyTutor has stressed the importance of helping your child with their workload

Following a weekend of freezing temperatures, many schools across the country have been forced to close today as a thick blanket of snow covers parts of the country. While students may be away from the classroom, it’s important that parents encourage their studies from home. Festive fun in the snow is far more tempting of course, but there are ways to keep kids focussed when they head back inside.

Helping your children with their school work can help benefit their busy workload in the long run – especially as the Christmas break approaches. Thankfully, there’s a range of simple tips that can help them feel confident upon their return.

The team at MyTutor – the UK’s largest tutoring platform – has compiled the top five tips on how to support your teen with their snow day studies.

Help them make asnow day timetable

Teens can be put off from studying if they don’t know where to start. A revision timetable is super handy to tackle the pressure of multiple subjects and deadlines.

There are different ways to go about making a revision timetable. A key thing for teens to keep in mind is to use the same planner so that all information is kept in one place. You can help them mark upcoming deadlines for projects and exams in their planner and encourage them to break projects up into smaller bits.

Have them tick every step off as they go along so that they feel a sense of achievement.

Create a distraction-free work-space

It’s hard for students to find the motivation to study when they lack a clutter-free workspace. The team at MyTutor encourage parents to create an inviting workspace for their children.

Adding a desk plant is a simple way to make the study space feel welcoming and calm.

It’s easy to create a fun experience when using the right equipment, so opt for colourful folders for your teen to file away their papers. Highlight tabs with playful designs and different coloured pens for effective note-taking can also help jazz up their revision.

Colours not only add a bit of flare to otherwise drab notes, but they’re also a great way to help your teen organise and retain key information.

Make sure they relax too

While it’s important to study, downtime is important to your teen’s well-being. It even helps them with their learning. Looking away from a problem and returning to it a bit later can help encourage creative solutions.

Surprisingly, when your mind is at rest, it’s still busy working things out, so it’s important to allow your teen to switch off – whether this is watching a festive film or enjoying the snow outdoors.

Give them room to breathe

It can be easy to get carried away with helping your child as they study, so giving them private time is equally as important.

Giving your teen some breathing room to work on their studies (while checking in from time to time) is more beneficial to them in the long run as they become resilient learners.

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