Why onlookers hold the key to standing up to bullies. Is David Cameron right to praise the ‘tiger mother’? Four years ago, Amy Chua published a parenting memoir in which she admitted steering her two daughters towards success with such a firm hand and ferocious tongue that child psychologists lined up to warn against the consequences: self-image problems, conflicted relationships with parents, a propensity to develop psychiatric issues ...
Chua was called abusive and received death threats. Academy chain’s fees for ‘consultants’ put schools programme under scrutiny. The government is facing fresh questions over the accountability of its academy schools programme after it emerged that one small chain paid more than £800,000 in just two years to “consulting” companies in which its founders or trustees have major financial interests .
The Griffin Schools Trust, whose accounts show that it breached financial guidelines in 11 different ways in 2013, has paid more than £700,000 to a company wholly owned by its joint chief executives, Liz Lewis and Ange Tyler, over the past two financial years. Three other companies – Sagacious Associates Ltd, White Eagle Education Ltd, Jennie Thomas Education Consultancy Limited – in which trustees of the charity have majority interests, received smaller payments that amounted to around £100,000 for “educational consultancy services’”, the trust’s accounts show, as did Christine Loach, the wife of a trustee. Shadow education secretary Lucy Powell said continued lack of oversight was bringing education into disrepute.
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Thank you. 12 Examples Of Excellent Parenting. Five ways teachers use Lego creatively in class. Hearing a child say they spent their school day playing with Lego may not go down well with parents.
But these little bricks could become a fixture in maths lessons thanks to a new programme devised by the toy company. Primary schools have long used Lego informally to teach. However, this month Lego Education is launching a new programme, MoreToMaths, a global scheme especially designed to help teachers tackle key stage 1 maths on the national curriculum using the toys. The MoreToMaths kit, including lesson plans and teaching guides, costs £750 for a class of 30. Choosing a primary school: a teacher's guide for parents. What makes a great primary?
Let's deal with this one straight away – it isn't what Ofsted says. There's nothing irregular about flexi-schooling.
The fightback against gendered toys. Three years ago, while she was on maternity leave, Ros Ball and her partner, James, began a diary of their children's lives.
Their daughter Josie was three and their son Clem three months old. They wanted to record the moments when their children were made aware of gender stereotypes; when they were directed towards a view of the world in which girls and boys inhabit separate, rigid spheres of pink and blue – the first sphere passive, pretty and gentle, the second aggressive, active and strong. The fightback against gendered toys. Links to websites with bilingual and multilingual resources. 50 Ways To Teach Your Child To Read. By Allison McDonald Hello!
If you are new here check out No Time For Flash Cards on Pinterest and join our Facebook community for more great ideas. Are iPads and tablets bad for young children? Four small preschool children are sitting in a semi-circle around their teacher, in a large, bright room in a Georgian house in Bath.
The nursery belongs to the Snapdragons chain, one of the first in the UK to offer iPads to its children soon after the tablet was launched in April 2010. The shelves are full of books, but the children are not looking at books. Child 'training' book triggers backlash. 10 December 2013Last updated at 20:55 ET By Aidan Lewis BBC News, Washington Author Michael Pearl says sales have been steady.
The mother of all fights. Cruella de Vil has nothing on childcare guru Claire Verity, according to parents.
Six childcare gurus who have changed parenting. Newborn babies may be more developed than we think. My baby could not look more like a subject in a laboratory experiment. Wearing a soft white skullcap attached by long wires to an EEG machine measuring his brain activity, he is also surrounded by computer equipment and fussing researchers at University College London. England's young people near bottom of global league table for basic skills. Link to video: OECD report ‘sobering’, says skills minister England is the only country in the developed world where the generation approaching retirement is more literate and numerate than the youngest adults, according to the first skills survey by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. In a stark assessment of the success and failure of the 720-million-strong adult workforce across the wealthier economies, the economic thinktank warns that in England, adults aged 55 to 65 perform better than 16- to 24-year-olds at foundation levels of literacy and numeracy.
The survey did not include people from Scotland or Wales. The OECD study also finds that a quarter of adults in England have the maths skills of a 10-year-old. Poor children's life chances are decided in primary school, report finds. Nearly 80% of the difference in GCSE results between rich and poor children has been determined by age seven, the report says. Education in England: sliding down the class. Children's Centres Search - Islington Council.
Search results: Inspection Reports. Parents 'can save cash' by moving next to top state schools. Why I choose state education over private school. Last week in Education Guardian Janet Murray wrote about why she sent her child to a private school. Why London's schools are the best in England. For many years, London schools – and particularly its secondary schools – have had an unwelcome reputation. Islington state schools list top best find reviews. Toddler brain scan gives language insight. 8 October 2013Last updated at 20:58 ET By Helen Briggs BBC News The left hand side of the brain has more myelin. School starting age: the evidence. In England children now start formal schooling, and the formal teaching of literacy and numeracy at the age of four. A recent letter signed by around 130 early childhood education experts, including myself, published in the Daily Telegraph (11 Sept 2013) advocated an extension of informal, play-based pre-school provision and a delay to the start of formal ‘schooling’ in England from the current effective start until the age of seven (in line with a number of other European countries who currently have higher levels of academic achievement and child well-being).