This little boy touched my heart and is the purpose of this week’s blog. Here he is, on a make shift table outside McDonald’s. A place he can’t afford to [ . . . ]
Month: January 2016
Don’t let your child miss out on a childhood
Don’t let your children miss out! Looking back on my childhood, it was all about pleasurable experiences! The pleasures that cost nothing rather than a fortune such as walks in [ . . . ]
Home Schooling
If I could go back in time, I would most definitely home school my child. Firstly because he wasn’t that happy at school and secondly I think there is so [ . . . ]
Game of mobile phones
I ban smartphones from my classes! This makes some kids howl, especially my GCSE Monday nighters.They can’t live without them. The funny thing is that I can’t live without mine [ . . . ]
How to help your child learn to read…
Basic literacy in the early years involves letters, sounds and words. Develop your child’s ‘sight’ vocabulary – this means help your child recognize the shape and meaning of whole words. [ . . . ]
Sexism is still rife!
Clarissa Farr, head of Britain’s leading girls school, St Paul’s Girls in London, where fees are £22,000 a year, has attacked private boys schools for turning out young men with [ . . . ]
Do babies have a ‘Social Brain’?
The capacity to engage and communicate in a social world, is one defining the characteristics of the human species. Adults have special areas of the brain, sometimes referred to as [ . . . ]
11+ tests
Parents of year 6 pupils will have been brought back to earth with a bang in September as just after the long holidays and a few days back at school, [ . . . ]
Social Media Privacy
You will find children are glued to their social media. They are either tweeting between lessons or updating their Facebook status on their phones at break. The younger generations are [ . . . ]
Being a Lady
A girls boarding school labelled the ‘poshest’ in England, where Princess Anne was a pupil, is launching a professional diploma to teach girls social skills. This is probably needed, as [ . . . ]
We all think children should start learning a language at Primary School
It is now compulsory for children to learn a language from Key Stage Two (ages 7 to 11). The children will have a choice between French, German, Italian, Mandarin, Spanish, [ . . . ]
Developing your toddler’s language
Language development is an ongoing process for children starting from a very young age; each child will develop at their own rate. All children should find learning fun! Children will [ . . . ]
Old-style classroom teaching
The Government’s school behaviour chief has called for a return on children putting their hands up in class to answer a question. Ludicrous as it may sound, this practice has [ . . . ]
What do you say : Suh or SSSS for the word ‘snake’ ?
How do you teach your children phonetics? Children are now learning to read with Synthetic Phonics and are learning a new way of saying the letter sounds. Whichever way the [ . . . ]
Don’t shut the book on the bedtime story
According to a recent report, parents should continue reading bedtime stories to their children until they are 11 years old. Children have expressed sadness about this routine ending when they [ . . . ]