May 21, 2020 | Homeschooling, Primary Mentoring
Supporting your child’s mental health during lockdown is not easy, especially when I’m probably not the only parent who has lost track of what day it is, and how many weeks the country has been in lockdown. As we all attempted to navigate a new normal, juggling work,...
Apr 27, 2020 | A Levels, Homeschooling, Mentoring, Revision
Our fifth and final part in our series looks at supporting your children with homeschooling in KS5. Let’s be honest, it isn’t an easy task to support your seventeen year old son or daughter, who is used to working independently, starting to spread their wings and...
Apr 17, 2020 | GCSE, Homeschooling, Mentoring
Our fourth part in our series looks at supporting your children with homeschooling in KS4, the GCSE years of secondary school, from the ages of fourteen to sixteen. Students from KS4 fall into two halves. Those in Year 11 who have had GCSE examinations cancelled, and...
Apr 16, 2020 | Homeschooling
Primary (many are for secondary as well) Maths https://nrich.maths.org/14600 https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/primary 5-a-day https://www.stem.org.uk/home-learning/primary#maths https://wild.maths.org/ https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/...
Apr 9, 2020 | Homeschooling, Mentoring
Our third part of our series looks at supporting your children with homeschooling in KS3, the first few years of secondary school, from the ages of eleven to fourteen. This is often a very awkward age when your children are developing into teenagers and one minute...
Apr 2, 2020 | Homeschooling, Primary Mentoring
Our second part of our series looks at supporting your children with Homeschooling in KS2, the older half of primary school, from the ages of seven to eleven. Supporting your children with homeschooling in KS2 is a challenge, particularly when you’re trying to work...
Apr 2, 2020 | Homeschooling, Primary Mentoring
Supporting your children with homeschooling is a challenge, especially when you are trying to work from home at the same time. Sharing your kitchen table with your seven year old, while at the same time trying to look presentable for a video call and wondering whether...
Mar 23, 2020 | A Levels, GCSE, Homeschooling, Mentoring, Study Tips
How to study at home for secondary students? In these uncertain times of coronavirus, with schools partially closed and families and young people self-isolating, this is the big question. At first, the prospect of an indefinite school holiday might sound exciting and...
Mar 11, 2020 | Primary Mentoring
I’m sure I am not the only person who feels a mixture of relief and surprise that it is already March, and that we are only a few weeks away from the Easter break. Children are more than half way through the school year, and the summer term is just around the corner....
Feb 13, 2020 | Primary Mentoring
When working with teachers I often ask them to describe a successful learner. Responses from schools across the country always include students who: Are well organised and able to plan systematically Ask questions and take risks to try things without fear of making...
