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Homeschooling and School

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.

You'll also find information and advice homeschooling as we chose to home educate one of our children.

50 Easy Ways to Learn Times Tables: Helping Your Child

Written by Josie

50 tips to help your child learn their times tables

While a huge amount of a child’s education takes place at school, learning times tables doesn’t really happen without a great deal of practice at home as well and if you’re a home educator, all of it will be done at school. While some kids might pick it up easily through simple repetition, some children […]

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Dinosaur Themed Learning Resources

Written by Josie

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. It’s a method used all the tome in home education and it works really well. In order to help you do that, I’ve rounded up the […]

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Letter Writing for Kids – A Great Way to Get Them Writing

Written by Josie

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

Written by Josie

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 children, having their work themed to something they are interested in can make a big difference to how they engage with education. I’ve previously written about the Minecraft themed […]

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Minecraft Learning Resources

Written by Josie

Learning with minecraft

I don’t know about your kids, but mine absolutely love Minecraft.  I’ve been allowing them some extra screen time lately and almost all of it is spent on Minecraft. I’m really pleased about this because if they’re on Minecraft, I feel like they are doing something worthwhile and it can be great as part of home […]

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A blog about trying to raise independent kids while retaining a sense of humour. Me: I’m Josie, a 44 year old introvert and former librarian. Them: My husband Chris, Boy Child who is 12 and Girl Child who is 10. The others: Hera the cat and Baxter the dog. Read More…

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