Jul 14, 2020 | A Levels, Careers, UCAS
WHAT NEXT? Your options after A level results day. If August 13th is a significant day in your house there’s also no doubt been much soul searching over the last few months about student options after A level results day. The Covid-19 pandemic has presented this...
Jun 24, 2020 | A Levels, UCAS
A parents’ rough guide to UCAS to help you and your child make informed decisions about next year. I have a son in Year 12. This time last year I was looking forward to taking him to university open days, perhaps having a couple of weekends away in cities as far...
Jun 2, 2020 | Homeschooling, Mentoring, Primary Mentoring
June 1st is the date that the Prime Minister announced that children can begin returning to school in England following ten weeks of lockdown. He announced that it would be done in stages, with primary schools opening up for years six, one and reception and the hope...
May 21, 2020 | Homeschooling, Primary Mentoring
Supporting your child’s mental health during lockdown is not easy, especially when I’m probably not the only parent who has lost track of what day it is, and how many weeks the country has been in lockdown. As we all attempted to navigate a new normal, juggling work,...
Apr 27, 2020 | A Levels, Homeschooling, Mentoring, Revision
Our fifth and final part in our series looks at supporting your children with homeschooling in KS5. Let’s be honest, it isn’t an easy task to support your seventeen year old son or daughter, who is used to working independently, starting to spread their wings and...
Apr 17, 2020 | GCSE, Homeschooling, Mentoring
Our fourth part in our series looks at supporting your children with homeschooling in KS4, the GCSE years of secondary school, from the ages of fourteen to sixteen. Students from KS4 fall into two halves. Those in Year 11 who have had GCSE examinations cancelled, and...
Apr 16, 2020 | Homeschooling
Primary (many are for secondary as well) Maths https://nrich.maths.org/14600 https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/primary 5-a-day https://www.stem.org.uk/home-learning/primary#maths https://wild.maths.org/ https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/...
Apr 9, 2020 | Homeschooling, Mentoring
Our third part of our series looks at supporting your children with homeschooling in KS3, the first few years of secondary school, from the ages of eleven to fourteen. This is often a very awkward age when your children are developing into teenagers and one minute...
Apr 2, 2020 | Homeschooling, Primary Mentoring
Our second part of our series looks at supporting your children with Homeschooling in KS2, the older half of primary school, from the ages of seven to eleven. Supporting your children with homeschooling in KS2 is a challenge, particularly when you’re trying to work...
Apr 2, 2020 | Homeschooling, Primary Mentoring
Supporting your children with homeschooling is a challenge, especially when you are trying to work from home at the same time. Sharing your kitchen table with your seven year old, while at the same time trying to look presentable for a video call and wondering whether...
