If the time has come for you to start thinking about where you’d like to send your child to school, you will want to take your time and really assess your options. Careful planning and consideration is vital in order to ensure you find the best environment to help your child thrive and develop. If […]
How to Motivate Your Child to Learn
A motivated child is a dream to teach; there’s nothing so exciting to a parent or teacher than a child who is keen to learn and excited to face new challenges. However not all children are this way inclined. Some might enjoy classroom-based learning but struggle to motivate themselves at home. Others might find the […]
Stress Busting Techniques for Exam Period
For young people, examinations can be a difficult experience. This is a sometimes-fraught period in a teenager’s life especially. Hormones, worries about friends or the future in general can all add to the sense of panic. It’s vital that young people learn how to manage the stress so that it doesn’t get on top […]
What are the Three Main Learning Styles for Children?
You may have already heard something about the different learning styles for children. The main styles are considered to be as follows – Auditory Visual Kinaesthetic There are other, less common styles but the above represent the most widely understood. It was in 1980 that Howard Gardner, a developmental psychologist and educational researcher first […]
Coronavirus: Beware the free-time fallacy
Stay at home, they said. Save lives, they said. It’ll only be for a while, they said. Look on the bright side, they said. Think of all that time to do the things you’ve been putting off for years. Shakespeare, they said, wrote some good material while social distancing from bubonic plague, and as for […]