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The Story of Little Hum (the prequel)

The Story of Little Hum (the prequel)

The Story of Little Hum (the prequel) Here is The Story of Little Hum (the prequel). I wrote it for children. It is the story of a Longing who travels across the universe looking for an adventure. You will need a quiet space and 6 minutes and

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Five Ways to enhance a summer holiday

Five Ways to enhance a summer holiday

Five Ways to enhance a summer holiday Going on summer holiday with your child can present its own set of challenges. The phrase ‘sun, sea, sand and structure’ doesn’t really have an inspirational ring to it! However, ensuring your child remains stimulated, nourished and encouraged, even on

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For children to thrive…a personal reflection

For children to thrive…a personal reflection

For children to thrive, they need to have a good grounding in who and what they are. When I left home many years ago to go to teacher training college – and again when I graduated and began teaching – I realised that despite my education, I

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A holiday challenge!

A holiday challenge!

A holiday challenge! Here is a brainstorming holiday challenge for small people & their parents!

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Keeping children on track during holidays

Keeping children on track during holidays

Keeping children on track requires effort. Some years ago, I was the teacher of a lovely class of Year 3 children. They worked well together, had a great work ethic and were very nice little people individually, many of whom I remember to this day. Towards the

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Teaching children to listen…

Teaching children to listen…

Teaching children to listen is very important. Listening – not hearing – is one of the key skills needed for learning but believe it or not, less than 2% of people have had any formal education on how to listen!  Children rarely develop good listening skills by

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What your child is learning

What your child is learning

The first time I asked myself the question ‘What is this child actually learning?’ was over twenty years ago when I was teaching my Year 5 Class about farming in geography. What your child is learning is crucial to their development. The children developed a model farm

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When children don’t want to go to school…

When children don’t want to go to school…

When children don’t want to go to school, it can cause parents a lot of sleepless nights. The anxiety caused can create conflict between exasperated parent and child. There can be any number of reasons for a child becoming disaffected in this way from undiagnosed learning challenge

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Lessons Alive comes alive!

Lessons Alive comes alive!

Welcome! Welcome to the new Lesson Alive website. Lessons Alive has been gathering momentum over the past 5 years and we thought it would be timely to update the site to accommodate the changes. With the help of Twitter and Facebook, I hope to spread the Lessons

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