Tag: school
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7 Questions You Must Ask Your Child’s Teacher At Parent Consultation
The first half term of this academic year is crawling to a close. Many schools will be holding Parent Consultations which you’ll be invited to in order to discuss your child’s progress. Some of us approach these meetings with a certain amount of trepidation and looming dread. But I want you to be armed with…
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Don’t Waste Your Money On A Tutor
Tutors. Do we need them? For our lovely special children I’m not so sure. He has an extremely tricky time at school. Keeping focussed, keeping still, trying to process that complicated instruction, trying to just stay out of trouble. Then it’s home time. Yay! But wait. Time to go to the tutor. What do you…
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Gender neutral. Yay or nay?
Boys should be boys and girls should be girls. Blue for boys and pink for girls. Agree or disagree? I will lay my cards firmly on the table so you are in doubt what I think. We need to give all children the same opportunities so they all have self-belief that they can achieve anything…
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What your child’s new teacher must know
Who knows your child best of all? You. When your child goes back to school next week, the new teacher almost certainly will not have the first idea how to really manage your child’s behaviour. Therefore it is up to you to make sure the new teacher knows the facts. I don’t want to fill…