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How to help your child with their critical thinking skills

November 2, 2021 By Ellen

Critical thinking skills allow for wiser decision making and have helped our very survival. They incorporate analysis, interpretation and evaluation to help us make better sense of the world and make pragmatic decisions. We have paired up with an independent sixth form college in London to share advice on how to help your child with […]

Filed Under: rules, school, secondary Tagged With: consideration, critical thinking, develop, open mind, School, skills

Helping your child choose their A Level subjects

November 2, 2021 By Ellen

College is an important part of a child’s life. It’s here that they will find new friends and discover who they really are. What your child studies at college will lay the foundations for whatever they go on to do next. Whether that be a high-flying apprenticeship or a studious university course. To help your […]

Filed Under: school, schools., secondary Tagged With: A level, career, Choices, college, exams, subjects

14 years at the school gates: what I have learned so far….

September 13, 2018 By Ellen

Update: This was written a couple of years ago – now the baby is in P5 (still cute though).   My baby, he’s all grown up. It doesn’t seem a minute since… Yada yada yada.  You know the stuff – uttered by runny-mascaraed mothers waving children off to school before returning to their bleak and […]

Filed Under: advice, Boy Three, children, family, growing up., other things I have learned, parenthood, primary, school, school gate, things I learned from my children today Tagged With: education, family, in the world, life, parenthood, primary, School, secondary

Don’t make me do the mums’ race… ever

June 8, 2016 By Ellen

Team Bundance in training I wrote this in 2012, but it’s sports day again this week… To my left a woman in running shorts – bare, muscled calves twitching to be off. Taller than me by a head.  On the right the short-haired mum has pulled off her floral blouse to reveal a running top […]

Filed Under: boys, family, mums' race, nightmare, running, school, sports day, things I learned from my children today Tagged With: children, family, humour, My Life

Tips for pain-free homework

August 26, 2015 By Ellen

Back to school, back to uniform and routine. Back to sitting at the kitchen table for hour after painful hour getting the homework done. There is likely to be begging, cajoling, patient explanations, stern instructions, negotiation, tears and pleading. That was the scene here for many, many school nights. One evening, exasperated by long division […]

Filed Under: boys, family, in the world, parenthood, parenting, parenting advice, school, things I learned from my children today, Things I've learned from my children. Tagged With: advice, homework

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