Parents

3 affordable school uniform tips

Aug 25, 2022 | Parents | 0 |

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For many families, the start of the new school year signals the beginning of stress over the ever-increasing cost of school uniforms. The cost of living is already straining the family’s resources, and now there are other concerns like paying for the child’s school uniform.

Very few stores sell the designated school uniform required by schools, which makes them relatively expensive. Additionally, as a child grows or the uniform becomes soiled and yellow, parents are often encouraged to purchase newer uniforms. From a financial and environmental standpoint, it is beneficial to wait to replace your child’s uniform until it needs replacement or no longer fits.

Why online learning can help parents home-educating

Jul 22, 2021 | Parents | 0 |

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Online learning has the potential to help parents with their children’s educational recovery following an increase in the number of students home-educating.

Massive pandemic pressures on parents – why do they need help?

Jul 8, 2021 | Parents | 0 |

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The impact the pandemic has caused on parents’ health and wellbeing cannot be ignored. Parents must now focus on their return to normality.

Why is primary education important?

Jul 27, 2020 | Pupils, Parents | 0 |

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Primary education fulfils the needs students due the first few years of school life.

It aims to ensure the development of children – in order to develop their social, cognitive, cultural, emotional and physical skills to the best of their abilities.

Primary education overall improves children’s awareness, opens opportunities and reduces inter-generational poverty. Ultimately access to higher standards of education has more of an impact on academic progress than other factors, including social/economic family background and gender.

What are the four ways of learning?

Jun 22, 2020 | Teaching, Parents | 0 |

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It can be a challenge for teachers to quickly identify the ways of learning in which their pupils work best.

Teachers often compare how best to educate their pupils. But there are four ways of learning which each child will fall under.

The four types of learning are visual, auditory, kinetic and logical.

What do these mean and how can it impact how you teach your learners? This blog post explains.

Why is game-based learning important at home?

Jun 18, 2020 | Homework, Parents | 0 |

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Game Based Learning plays an important role in teaching and learning.

Gaming creates a dynamic that can inspire learners to develop skills and build an emotion connection to learning and subject matter.

Why is it important to engage with learning at home and how can games based learning help achieve this?

5 ways children and parents can stop cyberbullying

Apr 28, 2020 | Parents, Bullying | 0 |

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There are reports that cyberbullying may be on the rise during the coronavirus pandemic.

According to Sameer Hinduja, professor of criminology and criminal justice at Florida University, “When smartphones and social media became ubiquitous for students, cyberbullying rates went up. This makes sense, of course, because there was now an almost limitless number of potential targets and aggressors.”

But if increased cyberbullying is inevitable, what can parents and children themselves do about it?

Benefits of MFL during isolation

Mar 31, 2020 | Teaching, Parents | 0 |

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Thousands of people are pondering how to spend time during isolation. From cooking, school work, to quick fitness workouts – a whole range of ideas have been discussed.

The Independent today listed ‘learn a language‘ as one of its eight skills to learn during isolation.

But why turn to MFL during isolation and how can you learn a language quickly and easily in your own home?

Things they teach you in PSHE to help you during isolation

Mar 26, 2020 | Parents | 0 |

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PSHE could be fundamental to people’s physical and mental wellbeing during the coronavirus pandemic lockdown.

Many of the subjects dominating the newsfeeds and timelines concerns subjects that were studied during PSHE lessons in primary and secondary school.

But what can we learn from PSHE during isolation? How can our learning help us pass the time and maintain our mental health?

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