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Students who are medically absent or have suffered a brain injury that prohibits them from accessing mainstream education need to have a variety of options to support their education. One option is to offer online learning that can supplement their education so they don’t fall behind.
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Forming meaningful relationships with parents to help drive the potential of their children can be a tricky route to navigate at times. Schools can find it challenging to form a bond and engage with parents which can leave children in a vulnerable position in terms of their attendance, behaviour and engagement.
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Providing education support for children who struggle to attend school or have complex challenges can be difficult to navigate. However, there are suitable solutions out there that can assist with home education and implementing the right support for children.
EDClass had the privilege of speaking with the head of therapy and business development from Bibic, Chelsey Oxley to discuss why they have recommended the provider to parents who require an effective home education solution. Relating to Bibic’s services, Chelsey said:
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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?
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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?
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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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Many parents are unsure how to entertain their children following school closures announced on Wednesday.
The decision has crated an uncertain time for parents and pupils. Many parents do not want education to cease.
But how should you keep children occupied during the period, and how can you ensure education continues? This blog post is the top 10 educational games to keep children occupied.
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What are the top 10 tips for online safety?
Children’s internet use is at record high levels. On average, 5 to 15 year olds spend 15 hours a week online. Access to the internet is at an all time high, with almost 50% of 5 to 15 year olds have their own tablet.
But with the knowledge and social benefits that increased technology promotes, it also carries increased risk.
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Our educational games app, EDVille, is free for the duration of the BETT Show which takes place on 22-25 January 2020.
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When your school announces it is joining a multi-academy trust, both students and parents can find this time unsettling and may have lots of questions, particularly if they haven’t been engaged from an early stage.
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One of the most challenging parts of teaching (and a skill that your training doesn’t ever really prepare you for), is how to effectively manage parents.
Throughout your teaching career you will encounter a wide range parental behaviour, ranging from those who show zero interest in their child’s education to helicopter parents that make your job a great deal harder.
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Between 1997 and 2007 parental involvement in schools sky rocketed. Over the course of a decade, more parents and guardians attended general meetings, had a meeting with a teacher, attended a school event or volunteered.
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The power of parental engagement to positively affect a child’s learning is undeniable. Study after study highlights it as one of the most influential elements on positive student outcomes. Yet parents’ evenings remain a tough nut to crack.
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In 2011 Mark Zuckerberg stated that, at some point, the minimum 13 year age rule would be lowered.
55% of parents of 12-year-olds said their child was on Facebook and 76% said they helped them gain access.
Whilst, at the time, he came under fire from child safety experts for this comment, the stat above goes to show that there is a demand for this course of action.
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Children are easily impressionable, and the opinions of others can impact the way they see the world and the people around them.
While young children are the most impressionable, teenagers and young adults can still be influenced to behave in a certain way or to hold particular beliefs.
The question of whether or not you can prevent children from adopting beliefs like racist and sexist attitudes from their parents is one that is frequently asked, and debated.
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The summer holidays are either a time that parents are excited for or one that they cannot wait to be over. For many working parents, it can be the latter as care has to be arranged during the week while they are working unless one is able to save up holiday time at work over the year.
Activities need to be planned, and friends hosted or visited. After working hard at school, the kids deserve a break, but is the six-week holiday a bit long? Should it be shortened down, or maybe even extended?
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In May 2016, the High Court deemed that it was acceptable and within the law for parents to take their children on holiday during term time – a move that was stated as a victory for those with common sense among supporters.
Despite this ruling, the topic has still been one of controversy among parents and teachers alike, raising debate and question about the quality of education a child on holiday during term time can receive.
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The dream for many a school is a cohort of students who all have supportive parents. Teaching would be effective, behaviour systems supported and funds raised by the PTA would enable trips to The Louvre for everyone. Well, maybe utopia is asking too much, but it is possible to engage your students’ parents and so improve their learning.
The first step is to work towards engaging parents in their child’s learning rather than trying to engage them with the school. This may sound like a petty distinction, but it is one that may mean the breaking down of many of the barriers to effective communication.
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When schools are looking to raise aspiration, parental power is an invaluable and powerful way to enhance and introduce enthusiasm and motivation.
Success is seen at its highest when schools and parents work together as a partnership, but whilst almost all schools involve parents in activities at the school itself, this is parental involvement rather than engagement and does not directly affect achievement as opposed to direct parental engagement which increases aspiration for all the family.
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Effective learning and effective teaching are the outcome of a classroom and school environment which is orderly. Pupil behaviour is as important as target setting or lesson planning and if discipline is an issue in a classroom, the attainment levels of all will be affected – whether they are misbehaving or not.
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The role of a teacher stretches past teaching subject knowledge. It’s a position which means more than passing on information regarding history, geography, maths and science. The classroom is a sea of opportunity for pupils to spend their time developing strengths such as fairness, hope, courage and a sense of adventure which will give them a life of fulfilment.
A good teacher will see this aspect of learning as a natural part of their job and they will look at the development of individual character strengths and the equipping of personality skills as something they are carrying out on behalf of each child they work with.
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The majority of parents with secondary school aged children would welcome the chance to become more involved when it comes to the next step in their child’s education.
As parents are only too aware, children who have started secondary school are encouraged to become more independent and this tends to lead to them being less forthcoming when it comes to their daily school life.
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Many children experience debilitating illnesses that allow them to attend school, but find it difficult to participate fully in classroom activities such as excursions. Over one million children suffer from long term medical conditions such as asthma, heart disease, cancer, Type 1 diabetes, stroke, celiac disease and anaphylaxis.
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Advice for parents has been issued today from the NAHT and the charity Family Action through their joint campaign Ready to Learn Every Day.
The information leaflet will be distributed through the NAHT members’ schools and is thought to reach “85 per cent of primary schools and almost half of secondaries” (The Telegraph, Feb 2014).
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