14 THINGS TO KNOW TO PREPARE FOR THE NEW SCHOOL YEAR PART 2

Here are some different things to know to prepare for the new school year:

8. Get your school bag ready

Make sure your school bag is clean and equipped with everything you’ll need – the new stationery, your textbooks, a calculator, and so on. This is also the time to ensure that your school bag is up to the job – any worn straps or holes are only going to get worse when it’s full of heavy books, so now’s the time to replace it if necessary.

9. Prepare your home working space

If you’ve let your room get messy over the summer, tidy it and make ready your workspace so that it’s all in order for you to knuckle down to homework as soon as you get home from your first day back at school. Clear your desk, get your files and books into some semblance of order and make any changes necessary to get it as good as it can be for your studies. For example, if you’ve been finding it a bit dark, invest in a new desk lamp so that you can read clearly. Small changes like this can make a big difference to how efficiently you’re able to work.

10. Make some resolutions

The start of a new school year is the ideal time to put into place some ‘New School Year’s Resolutions’ – a set of goals for the year ahead and things you’re going to do differently to ensure that you ‘up your game’ and get excellent results throughout the year. This could include things such as getting up earlier so that you have more time to study, making more productive use of your lunch breaks and setting aside time each week for reading around your subject. Start the year as you mean to go on, and you’ll get into some great habits that will enable you to reach new heights of academic achievement. We’ve put together some suggested resolutions here.

11. Set your alarm and stock up on breakfast and lunch items

A filling breakfast will help you concentrate until lunch.

If you haven’t been working over the summer, you may have slipped out of a daily routine, and it can be difficult to get straight back into one. If you’ve had a lie-in every day of the holidays, it’s a good idea to start getting yourself used to the idea of an alarm clock again, so that it doesn’t come as too much of a shock to the system on your first day back at school. Try setting it for 9 am a week or two before you go back, then set it a quarter or half an hour earlier each day so that you gradually adjust to early starts again. Stock up on quick and easy breakfasts that will fill you up for a morning at school, such as microwaveable porridge, and go shopping for some healthy packed lunch foods to take to school with you, such as snack packs of raisins.

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12. Make sure your summer employer knows you’re going back to school

If you’ve had a summer job, make sure your employer knows when you’re going back to school and perhaps try to organize weekend work for when you go back. The end of the summer is also a good time to update your CV with any summer work or projects you’ve been doing so that it stays up-to-date and it’s ready for any part-time jobs you might want to apply for in the new school year. Take stock of what you’ve learned from any summer jobs or work experience you’ve had during the holidays, and include the key skills you’ve picked up from each of them on your CV.

13. Relax

A trip to a theme park could be a good end-of-summer treat.

The summer holiday is almost at an end, so make the most of what’s left of it by treating yourself to some relaxation time before the rigors of the new school year begin. That’s what the holidays are for, after all! You have a busy year ahead of you, and you need to approach it feeling rested and relaxed. Take some time to do things that you want to do: go on outings, see a film, meet up with friends. Perhaps you could even organize a final day of fun with your friends – a day at a theme park, for instance. The happy memories you’ll create as the summer draws to a close will keep you going until your next holiday, so make the most of this time while you can.

14. Keep your brain in gear over the summer

Finally, a more general piece of summer advice, since there’s still a bit of it left. There are plenty of fun ways of keeping your brain in gear over the summer, and they’ll make it much easier for you to readjust to life back at school once the holidays are over. Reading, watching interesting television documentaries, visiting museums and practicing your language skills in a foreign country are all things you can do over the summer to help keep the academic side of your brain ticking over, and you can find even more suggestions here. It’s not too late to do these things now, and this is a good way of easing yourself back into the routine of studying.