Tag: primary english
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Part 2 of seriously un-serious* ways to help your child remember serious words
You know your child, you know what they like. The single rule might be: “Many ways for different brains.” Here is a happy handful of word-learning games. Feel free to use these as springboards to get into the activity of designing or improvising games with your child as co-inventor. 1. Does your child sing? Have…
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The Same Word War…or a brand new game to play with your child
I’m right in the middle of sending some lovely learning to an online student when BANG…a new idea comes for a game, so I’m sharing it with you straight away. You will probably play it before us, as we are not skype-meeting until Friday. It’s amazing to think an idea might spread into the Learning…
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Bank holidays are fantastic 11plus leaning moments!
Time is one of the most powerful learning tools when it comes to the 11plus. Spaced learning, learning over time, helps your child layer their learning, building up to a full understanding and a full skill set in time for the test later in the year. There is no substitute for starting early and grabbing…