The days are getting longer and spring is almost here – we hope – so what better time to get outside and get planting? Lianne Kolirin dons her gardening gloves and finds out why it’s an ideal learning tool for children Gardening was once regarded as the preserve of the older generation but now it’s [...]
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Seventy-five per cent of fathers don’t read to their children. They don’t know what they’re missing, says Charlie Swinbourne Every family has a bedtime routine, and we are no different. At around 6.15pm every night, it begins. Our daughters have their bath, brush their teeth, get their pyjamas on, and then, usually after a number [...]
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Managing money is an essential life skill that, until now, has never been taught at school. Financial education will soon be part of the National Curriculum, but the responsibility of equipping kids for the harsh realities of economic life should be shared with parents, too, says Lianne Kolirin… Hands up if you remember Pythagoras’ theorem, [...]
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The government has got itself in a pickle over what qualifications our children should leave school with by trumpeting and then axing the EBacc. And if the sound of an EBacc makes you think of a deadly virus, watch out, says Thomas Murphy – just because it’s gone doesn’t mean the government won’t eat away [...]
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When your child comes home begging to have their first violin or wanting to show you how to dance to Gangnam Style (as my four-year-old does), it will emphasise just how important music is in their lives, says Piers Townley. But with the government’s planned overhaul of the education exam system in England, is music [...]
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Read any news about the environment and it’s a confusing mass of contradictory claim and counter claim but our children can help. It’s not just that the future is in their hands, says Michael Donlevy. They will soon be better informed than we are There is a very good reason why: our children’s lives will [...]
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If you, like many parents, think your child is missing out on creativity, mum-of-four Ursula Hirschkorn has a simple answer. Take yourself out of the picture and it won’t be long before you see their imaginations run riot Ask me what I dream of my children becoming when they grow up, and once I’ve [...]
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