Exam Tips | Advice on Helping Your Child Achieve Exam Success
Wondering how to help your child excel in their exams? Here are some useful exam tips on how to optimise revision time and how to keep stress to a minimum. 1) Core understanding is...
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Our Top 10 Educational Youtube Channels | Best Videos for Learning
(1) Khan Academy What does it cover? Khan Academy provides instructional videos for a host of different subjects, including Maths, Science, computer programming, History and History of Art. The Youtube channel exists alongside a...
Learning Chinese Mandarin: the language of the future
Why we should be tutoring Mandarin? According to Bloomberg, China is already an economic superpower with a larger economy than the United States. Right now, it also has the world’s biggest population: roughly 1.3...
The Top Ten Positive Outcomes from Hiring an English Tutor for Your Child
‘By good fortune I have lighted well On this young man, for learning and behaviour Fit for her turn, well read in poetry And other books—good ones, I warrant you.’ The Taming of the...
What You Need to Know About the 11 Plus
The world of 11+ entrance exams can seem an intimidating one. When should children start preparing for the assessments? Do they need tutors, or can parents provide enough support by themselves? Do students sit...
Top 10 Apps for Learning Maths
It’s time to put down the abacus and pick up the iPad! Whether your child is just starting school or about to sit their GCSEs, here are the top ten apps to help them...
Homeschooling – What to Consider When Thinking About Educating your Child at Home
What is homeschooling? In recent years, the idea of homeschooling children has become increasingly popular. Homeschooling essentially means that children are educated at home or within small groups outside of mainstream schooling, which can...
10 Essential Tips on Getting Your Child to Read
The benefits of reading are indisputable. A growing body of evidence suggests that reading regularly improves a child’s academic attainment, as well as supporting their social and moral development. For example, UK-based charity The...
Should your child be learning to code?
Coding is the buzzword of the 21st century. Many of the famous business names since 2000 have gained their reputation from creating tech sites, people like Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook), Jeff Bezos (Amazon), or Jimmy...
‘An 8 second attention span’: how to help children focus for longer.
Having a shorter attention span than a goldfish is a good media story – but it doesn’t have to apply to our children. This week I was inspired to write about ‘focus’ because of...