Education tips

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Are we wasting time motivating children?

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At MagiKats we’ve motivated students for more than a decade to complete MagiKats homework tasks. But how did we do it?

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School summer holidays – the key to your child’s happiness and success?

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The summer holidays are possibly the most important six weeks of the school year! The hardest times in anyone’s education are the times of change and the toughest of all is the move from primary to secondary. 

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Helping Your Teenager Revise for their GCSE Examinations

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I once heard a teacher of GCSE English remark that one of the best ways to teach his students how to pass was to take the examination himself.

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GCSE Revision Time – What Can a Parent Do?

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When the great illusionist David Blaine was asked how he manages to achieve difficult stunts he admitted he says to himself, somewhat pragmatically; “so today I’m going to have breakfast, read the paper and stand in an ice block”. 

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Tuition for your child - who to choose?

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Are you one of those parents who, without realising it, has been quietly mulling over the comments made either in your child’s report at the end of last term or at the parent teacher meetings you recently attended?

A rough guide to the stages of learning and what it means to you when helping your child succeed in a positive manner.

Some new parents ask that their children be given more homework. This is a natural thought.  They can see their child making good progress on 5 or 10 minutes a day so it seems a perfectly logical expectation that they could be ready to go to university by year 7 if only they did half an hour a day! Unfortunately, rather like pensions, what you put in does not necessarily relate to what you get out.