Ah that magic time has come round again. The end of the school holidays – summer has officially ended. Autumn term has beguneth and all’s well in the world of adults with no young dependants! Each child of school age who fits into the mainstream system will have been graded before entry – the baseline …
Bringing children up in this hectic and very diverse world can sometimes feel like the most difficult thing on earth. There appear to be so many pitfalls – from whether you’re feeding them correctly, to whether they’re getting enough reading encouragement. From another angle, the worry about how safe they are when you leave them …
Watching someone trying to teach me any subject can be alarming through all the emotions back round to hilariously funny. I am absolutely hopeless if given a text book or notes to read in readiness to sit an exam. The words just go in, swill around for a few moments and then file out again …
When going for any kind of career, it is mandatory that some kind of training will be needed. If a civil servant, then this is inescapable. the ones showing you how to behave, how not to behave. How to fill in expenses claims, how to fillin the electronic flexi time sheet and annual leave chart. …
Knowing how best to take in a subject can be one of the most difficult things to actually learn. However effective the teacher tries to be, they cannot make every child absorb the subject if it doesn’t inspire them. Some folk are better at being given a list of instructions and made to learn each …
Trying to catch up on exam revision used to be the bane of our lives. We would be given hints and ideas by the teacher concerned but in the grand scheme of things, it was impossible to concentrate and take in the flood of information hitting us in one go. Today’s youngsters have completely different …