May 31, 2007

Teachers to Search Pupils for Knives

Once again our teachers are involved in time and cost consuming activities that detract from their primary role. Difficult to say how society can easily correct the tendency towards violence that has precipitated these measures. With some schools’ budgets allowing just £150 to equip a class with its educational resources for a year the financial […]

May 26, 2007

Prince of Wales World Environment Day 5-6-7

The Prince of Wales to Launch Revolve Eco Car Events during London Sustainability Weeks
As a lead up to the UK’s first ever eco-car rally on World Environment Day, HRH The Prince of Wales will lend his support at a pre-rally launch demonstrating some of the cars involved on Monday 4 June at Hampton Court Palace. […]

A fascinating upgrade to our best-selling maths revision title ‘MathMania’.

Do you need to get children practising not just the ‘four rules’ of number, but also topic work and problem-solving?
MathMania 2 (ages 7-11) gets children navigating mazes by answering revision questions on Numbers, Angles, Time, Measurement, Shape & Space and a ‘Lucky Dip’. The aim is to win points and get past maze obstacles.
With enough […]

May 17, 2007

Parental Involvement

A child’s reliance on a parent changes with age. Aged 0 – 3 years involves total dependence, and an almost vertical learning curve. During this phase the brain is also developing its ability to learn. Aged 3 – 5 sees a huge development in learning such as the alphabet, speech, walking, shape and colour […]

May 13, 2007

You reap what you sow.

Perhaps one often overlooked criticism of the educational process covering the past 10 years is the disenfranchisement of parents in the schooling process.
Whilst the pressures continue to mount on the teaching resource adopting new targets and procedures we seem to have overlooked one management essential; to work smarter rather than harder.
There are around 7.4 million […]

May 7, 2007

UK schooling performance is similar to Australia.

We are not alone. Concerns over schooling performance are international. Modern lifestyles, technology and social factors have a similar impact in schools in Australia the USA as in the UK.
Jeremy Roberts wrote in “The Australian” that bad parenting permanently damages the brains of infants, leaving primary schools unable to help them to develop. This stark […]

May 4, 2007

A New Schooling Role for Parents?

During early childhood the interaction with the parent in a caring home environment establishes the framework of their learning development for life. The learning curve tracks progress in ability against time, and follows a normal pattern of steep initial learning, followed inevitably by a reducing curve or plateau as interest or ability stabilises. Unchecked, the […]

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