Listen to Gail reading extracts from her book for parents. Week 1 Week 2
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Help your child to pass exams Help your child to pass exams. Like it or not, there is a continuous stream of children all over the UK heading towards life influencing exams. It is the system we have currently, and no matter what we may think of
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Tidy by Emily Gravett I love Emily Gravett’s book, Tidy – a wonderful new story from Emily Gravett! Small children will enjoy the book because of it’s story. The fabulous art in the book will inspire budding artists. The rhyming and the storytelling in the book will
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Learning about dates Make sure your children understand about dates. It’s important for children to be able to spell the days of the week and the months of the year! Do your children recognise and understand the different ways the date can be written? To find out
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Teach your children about Fruit Give your children useful reference: for school and for life. Take a fresh look at fruit with your children…go to the supermarket or to a farmers’ market and look at the range available. What fruit grows in the UK and what is
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Teach your children about Money Tomorrow, teach your children about money. Looking at pictures in maths books just isn’t the same as handling the real thing and because of the way we shop nowadays, not many children get enough experience of handling money, paying for things and
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Why does your child run into difficulty? Why does your child run into difficulty? Over the years, I have met many children who fail to concentrate in class and many who have poor writing skills. I have met children who don’t want to go school at all;
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FUN on a BUDGET! How do we have fun on a budget? If you Google “Educational Games”, you will get 127,000,000 results in 0.51 seconds. Many tell you they can help with dyslexia or dyspraxia or are good for observation or hand/eye coordination or other aspects of
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How feelings affect your child’s progress How do feelings affect your child’s progress? Recently, I listened as a mother reported on her very bright, 9 year old child’s progress. It appeared from what was being said that he was making overall improvement in attitude and behaviour, however,
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Start Here Start Here is one of the first core lessons from Lessons Alive. It so captivated the 9 year old boy whose lesson it was (and me), that I realised many other children could also benefit from it and wrote it into a short story called
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