Safety tips for keeping your children safe at home
In this post I’m going to be sharing with you some of the key safety tips for ensuring your children are safe at home. I will be sharing with you [ . . . ]
An excerpt from Tredicino by Elisa Gianoncelli
Welcome to a little sneak preview and short Tredicino excerpt…my current work in progress which I am editing alongside my editor Soulla Christodoulou at the moment. “On her way home, [ . . . ]
Reflexology
I am a big fan of reflexology which helps with everything . My London neighbour does it for me and she is an expert so it’s important to find someone [ . . . ]
An excerpt from children’s fantasy novel Tredicino by Elisa Gianoncelli
Today I’m sharing an excerpt with you from my current work in progress which I am currently editing alongside my editor Soulla Christodoulou. The story is unfolding in the most [ . . . ]
Young people’s mental health and parents’ concern
There has been a lot in the media recently about mental health, not only in relation to adults but also young people including pupils as young as five years old. [ . . . ]
Keeping a Diary
I have kept a diary / journal since the age of eight and I have found this enormously therapeutic. It has trained my mind, I believe, to be logical and [ . . . ]
Combat Training and my 30 day challenge
Combat training classes proved to be the key element to me finally enjoying keeping fit for the first time in years. I did ballet from the age of 7 to [ . . . ]
Little Women.
Which one are you? My favourite book of all time is “Little Women”. I grew up reading it three or four times. Not having any sisters I really wanted to [ . . . ]
Creative writing…
One of our students recently created the most magical story book as part of her creative writing project at Elisa’s Tutorial School. Using the story planning technique she has written [ . . . ]
Google has turned learning on its head…it’s time we caught up!
When was the last time you wanted to know something and didn’t Google it? Or use whatever equivalent search engine to find the answer? In fact, Googling has become the [ . . . ]
Adolescent brain and learning.
We expect a lot from teenagers. Teen suicide rates are soaring, and they increase during the school year and drop during vacations. This tells us something, surely, about how much [ . . . ]
Mysterious Wings by Maryam A. Hussain, a pupil at Elisa’s Tutorial School
At Elisa’s Tutorial School we encourage independent work and writing projects to embed the learning and writing techniques learnt in our group and one-to-one teaching. One of our pupils, aged [ . . . ]
Noises in the night…celebrating pupil Marta Boczkowska’s poem
Welcome to this week’s post which celebrates the wonderful poem of one of our pupils at Elisa’s Tutorial School. Marta Boczkowska, aged 10, wrote a wonderful poem called Noises in [ . . . ]
Beautiful sample work by our pupils.
The Moon activity books, downloadable from my website, are available for sale. The activities within these books have inspired pupils to do work of their own away from our teaching [ . . . ]
Quentin Blake’s Magnificent Illustrations
For someone who was never trained in art and instead read English at Cambridge, Sir Quentin Blake is one of the most distinctive artists in the world. Not only were [ . . . ]
Prevent age-related cognitive decline
If you find that your memory is not what it used to be, names and facts on the tip of your tongue are no longer easily accessible, you might be [ . . . ]
An excerpt from my current work in progress…Tredicino
HERE IS A SHORT EXTRACT FROM MY CURRENT WORK IN PROGRESS, A CHILDREN’S MAGICAL FANTASY NOVEL, WHICH I AM CURRENTLY HAVING EDITED, WHILE I WORK ON REWRITES AND AMENDMENTS…IT PROMISES [ . . . ]
A writer’s life for me…
As you know, I am an author. I write children’s books and I’m working on my children’s magical fantasy novel called Tredicino right now. I also blog. I also tutor [ . . . ]
One in seven university graduates branded cheats…
When I read this I was not as shocked as I thought I would be…everything nowadays can be bought on the internet and everything is available if you have the [ . . . ]
Lovelorn millennials are looking elsewhere and Tinder is not the number one platform for finding love…
Tinder is the dating app based on making a judgement on a picture and it seems that lovelorn millennials are now looking elsewhere for their dating and Tinder despite its [ . . . ]