Tag: y5
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How can you help your 11 plus child in the summer holidays? Try this 15hr weekly plan.
(Part 4 of a 4-blog mini-series.) Actually, it looks as if it will be a five-blog mini-series; there’s a lot of info to help you. All to the good. The last time we spoke, we looked generally at morning and afternoon patterns of learning. What follows is a zoomed-in look at a day from an…
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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…
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Turning problems into pictures: Draw out word problems
I’m just about to tutor, but wanted to share with you and your child a step I’ll be covering with my student today: Make word problems easier to understand by drawing them out. I covered in my last post why starting at the end of a word problem is sometimes more effective than reading from…
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Are you thinking about the 11plus? Think multiple choice! Here’s why…
Half term has been full of teaching and tuition, which I absolutely love, and here’s the one urgent lesson that’s come out of every lesson, from Y3to Y5, and from every chat with parents after each lesson: Multiple choice. Multiple choice. Multiple Choice. To put it another way – Q: Which of the following is…