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...
Category: Education
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...
Do private schools give children a head start in life?
Recently, the British public was treated to the dubious spectacle of shadow culture minister Chris Bryant and superstar balladeer James Blunt trading verbal blows. In a nutshell, Bryant name-checked Blunt (along with Eton-educated actor...
The issues of ‘Progressive Education’
Everything is subject to trends, even education. A recent book by Robert Peal, Progressively Worse: The Burden of Bad Ideas in British Schools, examines one such trend, and claims that this trend has, almost...
IT in Schools
Education ministers and policy-drivers often go to great lengths to emphasise that education should do nothing if not prepare students for the world that awaits them when they leave school and enter the world...
Gove is Gone
It’s official. Michael Gove, in all of his divisive glory, is no longer the Education Secretary, and will be setting up camp instead in the Chief Whip’s office. Teachers across the country tripped over...
7 Habits of Highly Successful Students
The new year has arrived and we have all thought of ways to improve ourselves over the course of 2014. Why not try to make yourself a better student? These 7 Habits of Highly...