This week, we have a guest blog from Stephanie Ward who talks to us about self-confidence and her advice on creating a happy, confident child. We are looking at self confidence this week because it is one of the core values we hold at Skills4Parents. Here, Steph gives us her three top tips for nurturing confidence in your child. I […]
Skills4Parents provides education support and advice for parents, and online maths tutoring. Our core values underpin every piece of advice, and all of the work that we do. Our core value is individuality. From this, we have 4 other values of self-esteem, self-worth, self-belief and self-confidence. Last week we looked at self-worth, and this week we consider self-esteem and the […]
This week in Education Support 4 Parents we’ve been thinking about self belief. I was privileged to chat to Lorna and Jac of Pursuit of Wisdom Coaching in the group all about how our beliefs are formed, and how we can challenge and change them. With this week being Children’s Mental Health Week, I’ve put together a few of my favourite strategies […]
Last week, we looked at the skills that you get from algebra. This week I want to look at the jobs that would use it. Now, we know that a lot of the jobs our young people will go into don’t even exist now, but the skills will be the same. It’s expected that we will change careers 5 times in […]
In my 16 years in education I came across so many different parents. Some were really involved in their child’s education, where others left it up to the school. It became obvious to me that there were some parents who were successful at getting what they wanted for their child. It all came down to how they were communicating with […]
We’ve just been through that time of year, when young people get their results and they feel the whole of their future is pinned on that one day. Just like last year, there has been a lot more uncertainty than normal this year. Today we meet Joanna Rawbone, her story has echoes of Sophie Breslin who we met in January, having […]
When you were growing up, did you want to be just like everyone else? Maybe you dyed your hair, changed the way you talked, walked, or just wanted to do what others are doing. But we need to acknowledge that we are all different. From hair colour, eye colour, to the way our brains work. At Skills4Parents we teach about […]
We don’t like to take the blame – our children are their own people who make their own decisions. We can’t control them. But here’s the thing… Your attitude to learning will affect your young person’s attitude. I saw this in a non-scientific way at school. I’d have a young person who hated maths, and they had wholly given up. […]
‘I was never any good at Maths’ is a cry I heard at parents’ evening, which made me weep inside. The experiences we have growing up affect us for the rest of our lives. If this is you, it isn’t that you are no good at maths, I believe everyone can do maths – it’s just that you haven’t had […]
When you think of Maths what do you think of? For a lot of people it’s numbers, for others it’s algebra. This month I want to think about the 4 areas of Number, Algebra, Geometry and Statistics, which make up the English maths curriculum. Understanding the make-up of these topics will help with maths GCSE, as you can work out […]