Feb 18, 2025 | A Levels, Exams, GCSE, Parenting, Revision
Spring is the school term when you often have the last vital parents’ evening before the summer exams begin. Mocks are over and schools schedule the parents’ evening as a chance to get vital messages across to parents and students. There should be an opportunity to...
Oct 15, 2024 | Career Guidance, Careers, Parenting, UCAS
Getting your career on track after graduation can feel difficult. Have you been struggling to find the ‘right’ job since you finished university? Have you fallen into the trap of staying in the ‘in-between’ job after coming home, before getting your ‘proper’ job? It...
Jun 25, 2024 | A Levels, Careers, Exams, Parenting, UCAS
Each year about 30,000 students defer their university course to take a gap year and if you include those that take a gap year without officially deferring, then the figure is much higher. Why? What are the advantages and disadvantages of taking a gap year? There are...
Sep 26, 2023 | Parenting, Primary Mentoring, SATs
I’m often asked by parents of primary Year 5 and 6 pupils for advice on how to support their child as the transition to secondary school becomes ever closer. Often parents and carers cannot envisage their ‘little ones’ sitting SATs exams or managing to organise their...
Jan 24, 2023 | A Levels, Exams, GCSE, Mentoring, Mock Exams, Parenting, Revision, Study Tips
If you have a child who is sitting their GCSEs and A levels this year, it can feel as stressful for you as it is for them. Often parents can feel the pressure of exams more than their children partly because they feel helpless in the process. As parents we want ways...
Aug 31, 2022 | A Levels, Careers, Parenting, UCAS
A simple guide to UCAS is needed because it can be a minefield of confusing jargon, deadlines and hoops to jump through if you haven’t done it before. Even if you are an experienced head of sixth form or adviser and use it every year there are always changes to learn...
