When Phonics Fails You
Well here we are once again – it’s been quite a while. Apologies for the break in posts - I've been a bit tied up with my own school....
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Guidance, suggestions and tricks of the trade from a teacher with over 20 years experience in UK and international schools. Covering everything from secondary maths to how to tie a shoelace, each blog entry deals with a single education issue and tries to make it as simple as possible to tackle at home.
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Questions Types and How They Work
Welcome back, Home Learners. Today, Helpful Hints is brought to you by yogurt-coated mandarin segments and sunshine. Today we are...
(No) Hands Up! Remote Learning & Participation
Good day to you all, home learners. Hopefully, as the weeks go past, you are settling into a rhythm. Here at Helpful Hints for Home...
Modern Foreign Languages
Today, as a follow up to a previous post about what to do if you just don’t know the answer, it’s time to take a little look at modern...
Phonics 2.0 - Long Vowel Sounds
We have already taken a brief look at phonics and short sounds. Just to recap, synthetic phonics is the preferred system in the UK (and...
What to do...when you don't know the answer
So far I have concentrated quite heavily on younger children or given more general advice. in this post, I want to help out those with...
Real Life Skills
With everyone living such busy lives - most families have at least two working parents, work follows us home, social media follows us...
Modelling, or Showing Kids How to Do Stuff
If you ever remember a teacher saying, “that’s not how I told you to do it” then you would be remembering a teacher who missed out a very...
Why, Why Why - how to deal with endless questions.
This is our first 'by request' HHLH and we are doing.... So your little darlings are always full of questions. Often starting with WHY....
What To Do If They Don't Want To Do Any Work?
Well, the short answer is, not an awful lot. If your kid has gone completely into NO mode, then they have shut down and you're not going...
Phonics
Today's topic is the thing that parents of Reception and Key Stage One children (4-7 year olds, roughly) find the most perplexing and...
Does it all have to be right? Why mistakes are good.
A lot of you will have been sent work for your children to do at home and will, understandably, want them to do as well as possible in...
Movement & Play
I know that this might seem mind bogglingly obvious, but your child does not, in fact, spend all day in school, sitting at a desk or...
Talk for Learning
A lot of us would have sat in classrooms and worked silently for long periods of time when we were at school. This is not what classrooms...