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Kirkby Sports College
A Centre for Learning
Inspire • Believe • Achieve
A Centre for Learning
Inspire • Believe • Achieve
Kirkby Sports College, Bracknell Avenue, Liverpool, L32 9PP
Telephone 0151 4778710 | Fax 0151 4778715
Email admin@kirkbysportscollegecfl.klear.org.uk
Telephone 0151 4778710 | Fax 0151 4778715
Email admin@kirkbysportscollegecfl.klear.org.uk
Kirkby Sports College welcomes one of world’s top public speakers
World renowned author and public speaker Tony Buzan has visited Merseyside school Kirkby Sports College (KSC) to teach a group of lucky pupils. Mr Buzan is the former editor of Mensa’s International journal and is rated in the top five public speakers in the world by Forbes magazine. His clients include NASA, Microsoft, Disney and the United Nations.
During his visit to KSC he worked with 50 pupils teaching them the skills of Mind Mapping, creativity and mental literacy. Mr Buzan invented Mind Mapping as a more efficient technique for thinking, creativity and learning and through his organisation, ThinkBuzan, the technique is used across the globe. It is based on the note making of geniuses such as Darwin, Newton and Di Vinci whose written work included many sketches and diagrams as a way of expressing thought.
Mr Buzan said the aim of his visit is to give pupils belief in themselves.
“Mind Mapping is about finding engaging ways to remember, think, study, communicate and create,” he said. “I am trying to help them demonstrate to themselves that they are really bright. They have the ability to learn and know how to learn.”
KSC principal Baljit Gandhi said: “It is a huge honour to have Tony Buzan teaching in our school. We are delighted he is taking time out of his hectic schedule, to spend a day with us.
“We are hoping to make Mind Mapping a tool that all pupils will use on a daily basis – both for note taking and work planning. Having invested in the iMind Mapping computer software, we hope to make this brain friendly approach to study a key element of learning. Mind Mapping works so well because it stimulates both sides of the brain, the analytical side and the imagination side. Combining both sides of the brain at the same time uses greater brain capacity and improves intelligence and memory.
“This will help pupils to plan and write assignments, make study timetables and structure coursework, as well as generate creative ideas, form independent opinions and analyse information confidently.”
Ms Gandhi said Mind Mapping can play a key role in learning and attainment for dyslexic pupils and would be used to help the school gain the Dyslexia Charter accreditation.
Sue Baker, the teacher who brought Mind Mapping to KSC and invited Mr Buzan to the school, said Mind Mapping is critical to raising aspirations and helping all pupils realise their true potential.
“Mind Mapping gives the pupils ownership of learning,” she said. “It is not passive note taking; it is pushing the pupils to be creative and use their imagination to detail their thoughts. By using colours and pictures as well as words it engages both sides of the brain in the learning process, empowering them to take learning even further by fundamentally understanding how their brains work”
Buzan shot to fame in 1974 following the release of his book: Use Your Head and his ten-part BBC TV Series of the same name. In 2005 he took on the challenge of helping children who had been excluded from mainstream education in a feature documentary he presented for the BBC. Since then his Mind Mapping techniques have been used across the world and he has authored or co-authored more than 120 books that have appeared in 35 languages. Buzan’s software tool iMindMap, which has a free version, now allows children and adults alike to Mind Map digitally opening it up to a whole new generation.
VISIT: www.thinkbuzan.com
World renowned author and public speaker Tony Buzan has visited Merseyside school Kirkby Sports College (KSC) to teach a group of lucky pupils. Mr Buzan is the former editor of Mensa’s International journal and is rated in the top five public speakers in the world by Forbes magazine. His clients include NASA, Microsoft, Disney and the United Nations.
During his visit to KSC he worked with 50 pupils teaching them the skills of Mind Mapping, creativity and mental literacy. Mr Buzan invented Mind Mapping as a more efficient technique for thinking, creativity and learning and through his organisation, ThinkBuzan, the technique is used across the globe. It is based on the note making of geniuses such as Darwin, Newton and Di Vinci whose written work included many sketches and diagrams as a way of expressing thought.
Mr Buzan said the aim of his visit is to give pupils belief in themselves.
“Mind Mapping is about finding engaging ways to remember, think, study, communicate and create,” he said. “I am trying to help them demonstrate to themselves that they are really bright. They have the ability to learn and know how to learn.”
KSC principal Baljit Gandhi said: “It is a huge honour to have Tony Buzan teaching in our school. We are delighted he is taking time out of his hectic schedule, to spend a day with us.
“We are hoping to make Mind Mapping a tool that all pupils will use on a daily basis – both for note taking and work planning. Having invested in the iMind Mapping computer software, we hope to make this brain friendly approach to study a key element of learning. Mind Mapping works so well because it stimulates both sides of the brain, the analytical side and the imagination side. Combining both sides of the brain at the same time uses greater brain capacity and improves intelligence and memory.
“This will help pupils to plan and write assignments, make study timetables and structure coursework, as well as generate creative ideas, form independent opinions and analyse information confidently.”
Ms Gandhi said Mind Mapping can play a key role in learning and attainment for dyslexic pupils and would be used to help the school gain the Dyslexia Charter accreditation.
Sue Baker, the teacher who brought Mind Mapping to KSC and invited Mr Buzan to the school, said Mind Mapping is critical to raising aspirations and helping all pupils realise their true potential.
“Mind Mapping gives the pupils ownership of learning,” she said. “It is not passive note taking; it is pushing the pupils to be creative and use their imagination to detail their thoughts. By using colours and pictures as well as words it engages both sides of the brain in the learning process, empowering them to take learning even further by fundamentally understanding how their brains work”
Buzan shot to fame in 1974 following the release of his book: Use Your Head and his ten-