When your child starts to attend school, they may be offered to go on a trip as part of their educational learning. In primary school, these are often day trips to location places of interest that fit in with the topic they are studying, whereas they progress to secondary school or later on at primary school, it may involve staying away from home for a number of days or weeks. Some parents struggle to see if this has a positive impact on a child’s learning as often the trip will not be structured like in a classroom situation. Each trip can vary in terms of how educational it is for a child, but behind every trip there is a goal in what the school hopes the child will learn from... Read More »
Education is often mostly carried out in the classroom, but children start learning from the day they are born and so therefore it is vital that a certain amount of education is taught at home. There are many ways in which to aid your child’s learning, none of which need to be complex. At the early stages this could be something as simple as getting your child to draw pictures and shapes and then progressing to letters and numbers. Counting with your child whilst carrying out everyday tasks such as walking up stairs will give them a basic knowledge of numbers. There are also many great books available for parents to complete with their child which will give them an understanding of some of the topics they will be covering... Read More »
As a supply teacher, you may find that you teach a variety of age groups. It may be that you are literally going from teaching reception classes one day (where pupils can be as young as 4) to teaching year six pupils the next (up to the age of 12). There is a huge difference in ability between these ages and also the way the pupils learn varies. At the age of four many children have a short attention span and they need to often visualise things to be able to start to understand them. By the age of twelve, many children will have a good basic knowledge of many of the subjects and will be able to start to imagine scenarios and can spend longer on one specific task... Read More »
Currently it is not part of the curriculum for children to learn any form of first aid at school and while there are a handful of schools who ask volunteers from places like St John’s Ambulance to come in to talk about life saving skills many still have no access to this type of education. Like with anything the issue with getting first aid training into schools is the cost, however some people feel very strongly that such an important subject should be funded by the government and should be made a compulsory subject, so much so that there have started to be petitions circulating to raise this with local MPs in the hope of bringing this to a debate. If first aid were to be taught in schools it... Read More »
Knowing that you have a classroom observation coming up can strike fear into even the most able teachers so how can you get through this stressful time and ensure that you have a really good observation with an outstanding result? The key is preparation. Start by thinking carefully about what sort of lesson you want to do and do plenty of research to know the best way to go about it. There are loads of great ideas online too that you could adapt to make your own. Then carefully do your lesson plan ensuring that you have varying degrees of difficulty to suit all abilities in your class and also specific adaptions for any children with special needs or language difficulties. Ensure that your lesson has clear objectives and a... Read More »
