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Spooky Maths Fun: Creative Ways to Incorporate Maths This Halloween
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Exploring Different Learning Styles
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How Movies Can Enhance English and Language Skills
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Balancing School and Extracurriculars: A Guide for Parents
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Tips for Improving Your Child's Study Habits
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The Importance of maths for young learners

 

Maths is an important part of learning for children throughout their early years and schooling. Developing a good grounding in maths is an essential life skill, and it helps children make sense of numbers, patterns and shapes. In addition to numeracy, maths builds upon vital skills such as problem solving and critical thinking. Building upon these skills may uncover newfound passions for maths, which could lead to educational or career pathways with mathematics. This blog explores the importance of maths for young learners and why you should help your child master numeracy skills early.

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4 benefits of reflection for children

Reflection is an important tool to empower children with, early in their lives. When encouraged to reflect, children build skills such as questioning, memory, investigating, explaining, and consideration. Reflection also helps children learn from their experiences, and develop their interpersonal skills. Learning the skill of reflection early in life helps set children up to become critical thinkers, who have the ability to learn from their achievements and mistakes. Reflection is a competency that is beneficial for children in both school and in life. This blog outlines 4 benefits of reflection for children - read on to learn more.

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How Pocket Money Teaches Money Management Skills

Do your children receive pocket money? We believe pocket money should begin as soon as children start developing number skills – even if it’s just a couple of dollars a week. It’s never too soon to teach children how to handle and manage money.

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Seven Ways to Take the Stress Out of Homework

Whether parents like it or not, primary and secondary schools continue to send children home with work to do. We can’t see this changing in the not-too-distant future, but we can offer some strategies to take the hard work out of homework.

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Helping Children Build Habits

Habits are important in building strong foundations for success in our lives. Our daily habits and choices, across all areas of our lives, inform who we are as people and the quality of our lives. Forming healthy habits in children is important to set them up for success later in life. Positive habits such as getting up early, helping with the dishes, tidying up after play, studying each afternoon, making healthy eating choices, daily reading, and more, are ingrained by repetition. These habits stick when children are conscious of the purpose, and can see the wider picture or motivation for making healthy choices that support their goals. Teaching and modelling healthy habits is an important factor in setting children up for success. This blog outlines 4 ways to help your children build healthy habits.

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