The Nitrogen Cycle
The preparation of a field towards growing a healthy crop is an essential role of the farmer. Alongside ploughing, harrowing, weeding etc. and fertilising the soil, there is one further ingredient that has a dramatic improvement in the performance of the crop yield. The addition of nitrogen, induced by growing previous root crops rich in nitrogen nourishes the crop significantly enhancing the crop yield.
Unless you’re a farmer the nitrogen cycle is probably something you last heard of in a science lesson at school, but there is a strong analogy between growing crops and children. Arguably the use of “nitrogen” in the schooling process to improve a child’s performance has been generally overlooked!
The teachers’ efforts can be significantly enhanced through adding some “nitrogen” rich parental support. The knowledge, maturity and wisdom of a parent and equally a Grandparent can be harnessed at home to reinforce lessons and complement the achievement at school.
Spending time with a child practising lessons in their own time builds their confidence and comprehension. It also builds your knowledge of the National Curriculum allowing you to be part of a continuous farming process rather than a sudden spurt at parents night. The resultant healthy crop leads to significantly wider understanding that the unnourished comparison.
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