For Parents

What can a parent do to help their child learn? Here are some suggestions:

• Eat healthily and stay relaxed in pregnancy: a child inherits its mother’s lifestyle
• Monitor for health in the early years: learning problems can emerge later
• Talk to, with and around your baby from the moment it is born: family talk
• Lots of close intimate contact with your child: kangaroo care
• Play creatively and with lots of physical challenge: robust play
• Read to, with and around your Child
• Model the three p’s: problem solving, positivity and persistence
• Encourage involvement in playing with other children
• Stay involved with your child’s learning

For more of these suggestions see How to Help Your Child Succeed, by Alistair Smith and Bill Lucas.

Accelerated Learning is an umbrella term for a series of practical approaches to learning.

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A child needs to be in the best physical state for learning in order for the brain to take in and process new information.

Children need to drink water throughout the day to remain hydrated. Dehydration, combined with irregular intake of fluids and fuelling with high concentrate sugar drinks - often laced with additives and preservatives - may prove a deadly cocktail for the young learners in a classroom.

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Help Your Child to Succeed: The essential guide for parents
Bill Lucas and Alistair Smith

As parents we want the best for our children. We want our children to do well at school and to get a good job. We want them to be happy and realise their talents. But sometimes we don't know how to give them the lift up that they need. This book has been written to help your family learn together more effectively.

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Music can help to energise or relax your child. It can be used to help your child learn curriculum subjects or times tables, and can just be the best sort of fun.

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Children are not good at sitting for long periods of time. A well chosen brain break can help them stretch, develop flexibility and be more alert for the learning to come.

Brain breaks can be used by the teacher to energise or relax a class, to improve co-ordination and to help learning. A teacher might use a brain break in maths to help children remember the shapes of numbers, or to practise mental arithmetic. In English it can be used to improve handwriting, awareness of shapes of letters and spelling.

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Learning Mats for young children

This set of 4 mats (2 double sided mats) has been specifically designed for children at Key Stage 1. The mats feature all the words specified by the KS1 National Curriculum, and there is space in the centre for children to place their workbooks while they are in the classroom or doing their homework.

We designed the mats for use in the classroom, but we have found that many parents use them as table mats for their youngsters. The mats are laminated with a heavy duty, matt finish, and are easy to keep clean.

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