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The Benefits of Chess for Kids
Is your high-ability child (or student) easily bored, distracted or quick to give up on challenging tasks? Is your middle-ability child (or student) struggling to engage with higher reasoning?
10 Top Tips For Self-Care For Teens (and Adults)
Early February saw Children’s Mental Health Week. I was invited into Jewish Free School (JFS) to offer some tips for students (and teachers) for looking after their own well-being.
How to Analyse an Unseen Poem
It can be quite overwhelming when faced with an unseen poem in an exam. However, if you remember STILTS, you won’t feel wobbly analysing a poem again!
Memory Upgrade: How to remember large quantities of information in a fun way
The techniques that I am about to share can not only unlock parts of your brain but can make learning the dry bits surprisingly fun
Factors that can raise or limit educational and occupational aspiration among young people
How can we help young people make more informed choices about their future.
Free Schools in Britain: A Force for Good?
Free schools are still, despite their relative presence on the educational scene, often either misunderstood or entirely new phenomena for many of us.
English GCSE: A memory test or a launch pad for critical thinking?
Of Mice and Men, Romeo and Juliet, Victorian love poetry and A View From A Bridge. These literary texts trip off the tongue; they have become divorced from their own contextual references and instead lie preserved in the formaldehyde of the British classroom and if your child has, is currently or will be taking their […]
How to Write Your Personal Statement for University
So, you’ve just had a wonderful summer holiday and suddenly remembered that on day one back at school you need to present the first draft of your personal statement. Don’t panic. Here are some tips to get you started.
The Five Questions Method – Tips For Tackling the English 11+
The field of Entrance Exams is becoming increasingly competitive with ever more refined selection, and growing numbers of schools having entrance points at ages other than 11 (such as 7+, 9+ etc). However, the majority of Entrance and Selective exams are still sat in the first half of Year 6, and the basis of the […]
What does gifted and talented mean?
Students may be identified as “Gifted” – this means they are academically, potentially in the top 10% of their school’s students in Britain. The key word here is potentially.
Should Economics and Government & Politics be taught from the age of 14 at Secondary School?
It is a well-known fact that although we do not realise, from an early age, we all do Economics and Politics. Any decision made by us on how we pursue our needs and wants has a significant consequence on economic growth and policy decisions made by Governments. Therefore, students who will be the next generation […]