Creative writing is far from a pastime – it’s the key to unlocking a child’s potential in English, getting good grades at GCSE and most importantly installing a life-long love of reading and language. In the new English GCSE, 50% of the exam paper has a creative writing element – being able to write with…
Once again the UK has come out low in international education standings – this time in how much participation parents play in their children’s homework. According to a report released by the Varkey Foundation last week, a mere 11% of UK parents spend at least an hour every day helping their children with their homework…
Nothing can really prepare someone like me, who is used to cleanliness, security, a steady income, a permanent home and knowing where the next meal is going to come from, for the feelings you have when you’re exposed to people who have none of these things, and who live in the most appalling conditions. The…
It’s a fact that must not be ignored – children cannot do the most basic of sums without knowing their times tables. Times tables are essential for grasping multiplication and it’s impossible to do short and long division without knowing them. It’s not ‘old-fashioned’ or ‘learning by rote.’ Knowing your times tables is the fundamental…
As politicians, teachers and parents study today’s secondary school league tables and play the comparison game, isn’t time we changed our archaic way of educating? The whole basis of today’s league table is how much academic progress and attainment schools have achieved for students. Of course, striving for the best academically should be a very…