Extra Time Mini Guides
This section of the ‘Study Support ETC’ resource contains a series of free downloadable bite-sized guides – designed to provide support, guidance, ideas and resources to help you set up and run a range of successful study support/oshl clubs.
Many of the ideas contained within the mini guides can also be adapted for use within formal curriculum time.
Each Extra Time Mini Guide contains:
- tried and tested ideas – all of which can be adapted to suit the age and abilities of the pupils you are working with
- case studies – showcasing examples of good practice within study support/oshl clubs
- top tips – for engaging pupils, making your club different from the classroom, and so on
- an essential checklist – questions for you to consider when you are planning your club
- useful resources – key publications and websites.
Download the Mini Guides below.
- Libraries (159 KB)
- Sustainability (238 KB)
- Museums (400 KB)
- Engineering (210 KB)
- History (155 KB)
- Magazines (189 KB)
- Modern foreign languages (157 KB)
- Science (205 KB)
- Sport and maths (155 KB)
For more information about the Extra Time Mini Guides, then e-mail us.
These resources are provided as PDF files. To view these documents you need Adobe Acrobat Reader. If you have not already got this software, visit the Adobe website to download it for free.
Download useful SEN websites (Word, 58KB)
New!
The impact of study support on improving attendance and behaviour
This guide is for anyone working in, or with, schools that have identified behaviour or attendance as priorities for development and/or improvement. It contains top tips and case studies to help you turn your ideas and targets into actions and results.
Download the attendance and behaviour guide (PDF file, 446 KB)
Download these supplementary case studies:
- Active lunchtimes at Rawmarsh School, a sports college (Word file, 39KB)
- Migrant workers community group and youth club (Word file, 38KB)
- Langdon School's study centres: helpers and leaders group (word file, 39KB)
- Supporting the learning of pupils with additional needs (Word file, 41KB)




