Is your child starting Year 6 in September? If so, it's a big year of secondary school preparation and SATs. As a result, you may begin to notice an increase in homework and pressure from the school regarding targets. While the SATs can feel overwhelming, for both you and your child, with the proper...
Read more ›If you're worried about a long summer of children on devices and concerned about how to encourage your child to read, look no further. Here's our ultimate summer reading list to inspire even the most reluctant of readers.
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Read more ›If your child's homework stresses you, you're not alone. A survey of 2,000 parents found that 34% of parents of primary school children and 44% of parents of secondary school children felt they could not help with their child's homework. At the same time, according to National Numeracy, 23% of paren...
Read more ›Does your child struggle with maths, have difficulties with basic mathematical concepts and gets confused with sequencing and mental calculations? If so, then they could have Dyscalculia. Here's how to help them cope with maths.
National Numeracy and the British Dyslexia Association say an estimate...
Read more ›According to a new survey commissioned by National Numeracy*, though the majority of us feel we are good at maths, we are typically overestimating our skills. Though nearly half (45%) of those surveyed rated their numeracy as good, they scored less than three out of five on the numeracy test, coming...
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