Using forgetting to your advantage Do you find that when you learn something you then forget it and need a reminder? It might surprise you to learn that that is how our brains are wired! Did you know that research shows that within one hour you forget 50% of what you learn? It might seem pointless therefore to learn, but how do […]
Today we meet Sophie Breslin. Sophie is an amazing woman, she’s a Mechanical Engineer who runs her own business and has worked with multi-billion pound retail companies and now works with ambitious SMEs to move them to the next level with automation. Her website describes her as ‘tenacious, focused on tangible results and motivated to achieve excellence .’ Liz chatted […]
Do you ever sit there and wonder, how did we end up here? I do, regularly. When I was 14, I had my life mapped out for me. I was going to be a doctor, specialising in neurosurgery. The brain fascinated me, with all it’s intricacies. I didn’t realise, however, that neurology, medicine and surgery would be the thing that […]
Over the next couple of weeks we’ll be looking at some stories of people where education hasn’t gone to plan for them. I’ve been seeing social media posts about this which resonate, and we need to support those who are in exam years and feel hard done by during the pandemic. This may be a different journey to other years […]
In planning out January, I decided on the theme ‘It’ll be okay’, and over the next few weeks I’ll be telling you about various people who had problems in their education when life didn’t go as planned, and their journey since. I couldn’t have predicted the changes that would then happen after I’d written my plan, and this topic seems […]
Guest blog by Sarah Ockenden I’ve asked Sarah, who we collaborate with in our FREE facebook group Education Support 4 Parents to write a blog post all about the information you need to know as your child starts secondary school. Sarah has been through this with her son, so not only has experience as a parent but also as a teacher. Sarah […]