Are Your Students Planning For Success?

We help develop key organisational skills. Our Agile Revision approach makes preparing for exams straightforward.

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How We Can Help

Assemblies

Presentations provide practical advice on managing time. Students leave the sessions with a clear idea how to plan in such a way that it doesn't take over their lives.

Planning tools

At the heart of our approach is a system of creating a personalised 'backlog' of work to be done, and providing a framework to do it with. It's a fantastic way of getting started.

Small Groups

Smaller group sessions concentrate on those students who would benefit from more depth. Sessions can be tailored to particular needs.

Parent sessions

The Study Buddy was created by a parent to support his son. These sessions provide advice on how parents can practically be involved without feeling like they are nagging or studying alongside their child.

About Us

How students manage their time makes a difference to their outcomes. The Study Buddy approach is based on corporate project management techniques, adapted specifically for exam-facing teens. It was devised by Nathan McGurl as he tried to support his son’s GCSE revision efforts

Working with schools and colleges across the country, Nathan’s sessions are engaging and lively. They are a bit different and yet lend an all-important external voice to underline the messages that will already be coming out of the classroom.

It is an approach that addresses the key hurdles all teens face when it comes to preparing for their exams. In a combination of project management thinking, teen psychology and evidence-based learning ideas, The Study Buddy tackles the What, When and How of revision.

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School Testimonials

"Great rapport, good range of activities fully thought through for pupils in different stages of their educational journey- highly recommend having Study buddy in your school"

Warminster School

“Nathan came to talk to the year 11’s at school and they were engaged from the start. They found the session informative, interesting and enlightening.”

Sidcot School

[The Jotter Sets] went down extremely well. Parents want to help but don't know where to start. They don't know what the students have learned and they don't know how much there is to cover. So giving them something very physical and very visual helps break down that barrier.

St Robert of Newminster School

STRESS-FREE REVISION

from start to finish

The Study Buddy approach is to understand exactly what needs to be studied, and then working out when it will be covered.

It’s more than aiming for higher grades, it’s about building the skills needed to plan and manage a workload.

Building those core skills for life beyond the classroom.