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School and Learning - Supporting Children in the Primary School Years

Supporting your children through their education can be one of the trickier parts of parenting older children. We’ve all forgotten much of what we learnt at school and teaching methods have changed pretty drastically.

In this section you’ll find posts about helping your child if they are struggling, supporting reluctant readers and some great tips on learning times tables.

There also some resource guides on topics that can help your child engage with learning, including a Minecraft, Football and Dinosaurs.

Dinosaur Themed Learning Resources

Dinosaur learning resources

Dinosaurs are something children often seem to fall in love with and what better way to get them to learn than by linking that learning with something they love. In order to help you do that, I’ve rounded up the best free dinosaur themed learning resources on the internet.   Dinosaur Themed Maths Learning Resources […]

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Letter Writing for Kids in Lockdown

Child writing a letter

When I was a teenager, I was always writing letters. Before we had smart phones, when landline calls were still really expensive, writing letters was a way of talking to our friends when we weren’t with them, even if we often ended up giving the recipient our letters in a person and sitting quietly while […]

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Football Themed Learning Resources

Football themed learning resources

We all know that kids learn best when they are engaged. Unfortunately, getting them engaged with their least favourite subjects is easier said than done. With key stage 1 and 2 children, having their work themed to something they are interested in can make a big difference to how they engage. I’ve previously written about […]

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Minecraft Learning Resources

Learning with minecraft

I don’t know about your kids, but mine absolutely live Minecraft. Since lockdown begun (again!), I’ve been allowing them some extra screen time (you can check out our homeschool plans if you want to see how much) and almost all of it is spent on Minecraft. I’m really pleased about this because if they’re on […]

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Homeschooling in Lockdown: 10 Tips from a Mum who expected to hate it

Homeschooling in lockdown

If you’d have told me in the past that the kids and I would be homeschoolIng in lockdown for an indefinite period of time, I’d probably have burst into tears on the spot. While I’ve always thought homeschooling sounded lovely, it definitely wasn’t for me. When my kids were little, I dreamed of the day […]

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