If you’ve been following activity in my free Facebook community this week, you’ll know I’ve been giving some pointers on calculations with decimals. Our children need to understand why decimals exist and how to calculate with them and be able to convert between fractions, decimals, and percentages. Having this understanding helps them to have fluency with numbers, which is just […]
This week in Education Support4Parents we have been focusing on multiplication and division. A third of the GCSE is non-calculator so it’s important that your child can do these without a calculator. There are many different methods for multiplication and division, when we were at school, we only learnt one. If I had a penny for every parent who has said […]
This week we celebrated Pi day, whereas last week was British Pieweek! Pi day or 14th March, (written in American date system as 3/14), because Pi is 3.14 . We are looking at different areas of maths each week over the next couple of months, and as we celebrated pi day, I figured we’d think about circles and how pi […]
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 […]
At Skills4Parents we provide education support and advice for parents and online maths tutoring. We have core values that underpin every piece of advice, and all of the work that we do. Our core value is individuality, and from this we have 4 other values of self-esteem, self-worth, self-belief and self-confidence. Today Liz, founder of Skills4Parents, takes a look at […]
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 […]
This month in Education Support 4 Parents we are focusing on improving our children’s mental health. We are doing this by working through the Skills4Parents values of individuality, self belief, self-worth, self-esteem and self-confidence. This week we have been thinking about our children as individuals and how we can encourage the school to treat them that way. When I was […]
This month we have been looking at how to revise. Today Liz explains the differences between the different resources to help you find the best maths books for your child. There are a few main publishers for resources and they each have their benefits. At Skills4Parents we focus on the individual and what suits them. We recommend that once you have […]
There are 17 weeks to go until the GCSE exams start. Revision will be starting soon, does your child know not only how to revise, but how and what they should be revising? What can you do to help them? Liz, explains some of her top tips. Only revise what they need to revise It’s a human tendency to want […]