Are you a parent who doesn’t know what the 1-9 GCSE grades mean, and wonder if your child is on track? In this blog post, Skills4Parents founder Liz explains the GCSE grading system and how this can link to topics and exam papers. “This new GCSE grading system makes no sense!” When the GCSE was changed back in 2015 (first […]
In the Smorgasbord of Maths training I explained why I left teaching, and why I set up Skills4Parents. When I explained my vision for changing education those watching sent me lots of love with those wonderful heart emojis. It was such an emotional moment. Where it started I left teaching after 16 years because it was all about results, results, […]
How does homework time in your house make you feel? Is it different for different subjects? Do you feel like you can’t help your child with their maths? Does it feel like it’s different from when you were at school? Are you someone who hates maths? Does it fill you with dread? Have you considered that the way that maths […]
This week we are continuing to look at ways of remembering the multiplication facts. Last week I showed you some of my favourite rhymes, this week we will be looking at a variety of methods to support with writing out the full times tables. It doesn’t matter how your child completes their times tables, they just need to do them! […]
Does your child know their multiplication facts? Is it one of those things that they struggle with? Over the next couple of weeks I want to share with you some of my favourite ways of remembering multiplication facts. When I was at school the facts were learnt by rote. We wrote them out over and over and chanted them. That […]
Be honest, how many of you have developed a new hobby during lockdown? I know I have enjoyed gardening, and one of my friends has been baking the most amazing cakes. Some have taken up knitting or crochet, and others have been taking greater pleasure in the puzzle pages of the daily newspaper (guilty as charged, I love a good […]
This year we have seen huge numbers of people being furloughed or losing their income completely due to COVID-19 restrictions, and all of our regular socialising has been snatched away, leaving us a lot of free time as a nation. As such, record numbers of adults and even entrepreneurial teens have been exploring additional income streams. Last week you’ll remember […]
Each day during periods of national lockdown, the government does a briefing in which we are presented with the most recent figures and statistics. Gut instinct says we should believe information when it is presented to us in a graph, so I’ve found some stats and graphs to make you question everything! Correlation does not equal Causation We have seen […]
Throughout history, school closures are rare. I remember when I was young, we got a day off because the school boiler had broken and they didn’t have enough heaters for all the classrooms. We also used to get about 2 snow days a year, although in recent years this has not been the case, with the exception of the Beast […]
Liz from Skills4Parents talks about how maths has been used during the pandemic