Reading is a vital aspect of a child’s learning journey; it’s one of the first skills they develop when they start in Reception class, and it plays a crucial role across all subjects, not just English. While it’s an important part of their education, reading can also be a source of entertainment or relaxation for…
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Helping Your Child Prepare for Exams
Read moreChildren aren’t typically very fond of exams, to say the least, but unfortunately, they are an inevitable element of school life. Parents can relieve some of the pressure of exams and revision by helping them prepare, as explored below by a Sixth Form in Hampshire. There are a variety of things you can do, and…
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Encouraging Your Child to Open Up About School
Read moreIf you’re finding it difficult to get your child to open up to you about their day at school or life in general, don’t panic; you are not alone. Most parents are used to receiving one-word answers when they ask their kids about school. However, a few simple adjustments in the way you communicate with your child can help them feel more at ease…
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Helping Your Child Make the Most of their Education
Read moreBy paying attention to and showing an interest in your child’s academic journey, you can help them make the most of their education and boost their overall achievements. In fact, if you want your child to succeed in school, it is crucial that you demonstrate how much you care about their learning and encourage a…
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How To Teach Your Child A New Language
Read moreMost schools incorporate modern foreign languages into the curriculum, but you may be wondering how you can help your child with this aspect of the learning whilst at home. Learning a new language will be great for your child and might even broaden their career options in the future. It will be easier for you…
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What are the Benefits of Outdoor Learning?
Read moreOutdoor learning provides a range of benefits to young people and it’s unquestionably a vital aspect of their education. Most importantly, it shows children that knowledge can come from a variety of environment, not just the classroom. In fact, there are learning opportunities in everything around us. In fact, the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) curriculum enforces…
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[AD] How to Create the Perfect Study Space for Your Child
Read moreBeing successful at school can take a lot more than being good at a few favourite subjects. Your child will have to adopt good study habits from the beginning to use throughout their education. Exam season and harder stages of their academic journey could prove difficult without them! Your child’s study environment will have a…
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[AD]Choosing The Right School
Read moreOne of the hardest moments for any parent is when you have to send your kids off to school for the first time. This is something that we all dread, and yet it is going to happen at some point. However, you will at least feel better about it if you have managed to find…
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[ad] Tips for Single Parents Who Want to go Back to School
Read moreHigher education programs are really hard to get through, add a child or two into the mix and suddenly things are twice as hard. In general, about 1 out of every 4 undergraduate students has at least one child dependent on them with about half of them being single parents. This can bring up a…
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[AD] The Week Junior And My Twin Girls
Read moreMy twin girls will be turning eight years old in just a couple of months and their thirst and desire for knowledge is in overdrive at the moment. It could be that they want to know more about current affairs, science, geography, sports or just what is in the news today. When I was sent…
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Completing a Degree After Kids? Consider an Online Degree
Read moreWhen you become a parent, your priorities shift rapidly. The thought of not being able to provide a good life for your kids is something that is completely terrifying. But, just because you already have kids, it doesn’t mean you can no longer grow and pursue personal passions and goals. This means that if you…
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Rocketship Education Teacher Becomes a Student to Understand Them
Read moreEmma Volpe is a teacher at Rocket ship United Academy. She was excited to hear about the Professional Development Fund back in 2015. She had worked for the public charter school for a few years before she heard about the Rocket ship Education Program. This is a program that allows teachers who have worked with…
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Review of An Essay Service with Cheap Prices
Read moreFor the majority of students it is evident that writing help should not be expensive. Previously, expensive essays and other papers were justified — academic writing services were scarce and you had to look for rather long time to find a reliable one. These days, writing services can be found in a few clicks and…
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Teaching 5 Year Olds About All Sorts of Family’s In School Who Decides?
Read moreSo here we are in 2019, society has supposed to have moved on we have become more tolerant and understanding as people, but have we really. There is sadly still in 2019 a bigot narrow minded large percentage of people that try to dictate to us what is considered normal. Normal now there is a…
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Pride In My Daughter E What Wonderful Text I Received
Read moreMy 21 year old daughter is now carving out her life in another city to where I live, it’s not quite what I thought would happen when I remember her being a little girl and starting school, but you at some point start living your own life and making your own decisions about exactly how…
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Homework Oh! How’s It’s Changed
Read moreOk! I come from the era of schooling when homework didn’t start until you started high school. I guess that makes me old, haha! Well, not that old! I genuinely cannot remember having any homework during primary and junior school, and I am happy about this because it allowed me to be a kid, so…
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Year 2 And SATS: My Thoughts
Read moreMy twin girls, R and M, have now been in year 2 for nearly a month, and already I’ve noticed a huge difference in both of them. In their previous years they tended to have teachers that were for want of a better description, smiley and happy all the time, and most of their…
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A Final Post About My Daughter E And University: She Is A Qualified Nurse
Read moreIt’s been nearly three years since I took my daughter, E, to Southampton to start her university course to study nursing. It actually only seems like yesterday, and I clearly remember how emotional I was at leaving E at her university halls, and the drive back home was lonely. It gave me plenty of time…
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Does A University Education Prepare You For The Real World?
Read moreI will start this post by saying I never went to university or for that matter ever had the opportunity to do so. At age sixteen I finished my GCSE’s and was promptly told by my mother that I needed to find a job as she was not going to fund my life. So on…
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Should We Encourage The Competitive Edge
Read moreWe live in a world today that is very much dog eat dog, and in the business, sport or in fact any path we take in our lives, it has a competitive edge to get ahead or finish first, or top of the pile. This is the way the world has evolved. There was a…
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Is A University Degree Really Worth All that Debt
Read moreTwo of my children are currently studying at university and I have often wondered if the final degree they receive is worth the debt that is going to hang around their necks for possibly years? This debt could easily amount to 40k-50k. That in anybody’s language is massive. Especially as when they enter the workforce,…
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