Take the number 5. What actually does it mean? Many of you will be racking your brain to try to answer this. Numbers are abstract. Written numbers are numerals that represent the numbers. A strange thing to get your head around, especially as a Kindergarten child! To allow children to begin to understand the concept of numbers, it is obvious…
Perspective gives life endless ways to be perceived and (as I’m sure we are all guilty of), I often find myself living with my serious glasses on. Now don’t get me wrong, there are things on our planet that we must take seriously for sure; deforestation, the volume of plastic filling our oceans and who came first, the chicken or…
In this article we discuss simple tricks to create an engaging and more complex narrative that will give your child the edge. This will not be a long drawn out explanation into the multiple lengthy criterion for the upcoming NAPLAN. Think of this as the equivalent of a ‘short introduction’ with the writing test. An introduction in which we get…
At our tutoring centre, we believe that displays should always support our children’s learning. Our primary school children enjoy being able to interact with the displays and use them to improve their work. Effective displays also allow our children to be independent and take responsibility for their learning! ‘A Pocket Full of Synonyms’ Using synonyms is a skill that our…
Having a growth mindset is so important for children today, in all aspects of their daily life. In our Education and Tutoring Centre, we encourage all of our children (School Readiness, Primary and High School) to embrace their mistakes and see them as an opportunity to improve and challenge themselves. If they are not making mistakes, they are not learning!…
