Anxiety in children can range from minor worrying to intense anxiety, where they start to avoid doing things and going places. Here are things to try if your child is suffering with anxiety or worrying:
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Helping children to stay safe online is a vital aspect of their education, which needs to be tackled both in school and at home. Through leading IT in school, I saw the importance of keeping up to date with online safety as things moved forward quickly with new technology. Here are some tips and resources for helping to protect and educate your child about online safety at home:
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Helping your child learn to read is one of the greatest gifts you can give them. However, it is not only about helping them to read the words on the page; it is also about asking questions to check their understanding of what they have read. Here are some ideas to help to develop their reading skills and encourage a love of reading.
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Children may experience the ‘Summer Slide’ over the six week break where some of the knowledge and skills they have previously learnt are forgotten by the time they go back to school in September. Here are some ideas to help prevent this from happening and prepare them for the new school year:
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Spellings are an important aspect of your child’s learning in English. They also open up a world of new vocabulary for your child to use in their writing. Here are some tips to help your child learn their spellings:
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In the previous blog post, we focused on how to help children learn their times tables. Now we are going to look at different ways to make learning them as fun and engaging as possible:
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Times tables play an important part in maths. They are needed across the maths curriculum from fractions to chunking, to multiplication and beyond. I’ve seen children who are confident with a method but have got the wrong answer simply because they do not know their tables. Helping children to feel secure with their times tables can really help to increase confidence in maths.
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