by admin | Apr 23, 2012 | Education Blog
Great blog from a Kip McGrath colleague in Scunthorpe. Don’t all students deserve qualified teachers teaching them ? It’s not just us saying it, here is the President of the NUS asking for it.
by admin | Apr 19, 2012 | Featured
Earlier I posted that scientists have shown how speaking out loud as you search for a missing item can increase the effectiveness and speed of the search, improving the cognitive process at the time. I then realised this is a very similar technique to how I have been...
by admin | Apr 19, 2012 | Education Blog
We made Hannah and Alex go through their list at breakfast time this morning. Allowing for dodgy counting between mouthfuls of cornflakes they came to 36 out of the 50. I was pretty impressed (and a touch pleased that I was perhaps a more active parent than I have...
by admin | Apr 19, 2012 | Education Blog
A report in the Daily Telegraph today suggests that scientists believe that our ability to find lost items such as car keys can be enhanced by saying the name out loud. Saying the name out loud can make the search much quicker and more accurate. So in the morning when...
by admin | Apr 18, 2012 | Education Blog
Following on from this blog post in April the Fisher family decided that rather than sit on a beach or around a hotel pool we were going to do a staycation this year. We decided that we wanted to really focus on our kids, to maximise the quality time we were spending...
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