by Ben | Aug 29, 2016 | Uncategorized
Why, you might ask, given that I run an education centre, would I be writing an article about the merits of children spending time more time playing? While grasping academic basics is essential in building a foundation for learning, exploring the outdoors and using...
by Ben | Jul 27, 2016 | Uncategorized
“ ‘Tis the Winter of our discontent,” mused Shakespeare. Dictionary.com tells us that while “Summer is a period of fruition, fulfilment, happiness, or beauty,” Winter is “a period characterised by coldness, misery, barrenness or death.” Most of us would admit that we...
by Ben | Jun 1, 2016 | Uncategorized
Most of us with children have no doubt looked at their work and realised that far more of what is taught is done so from a problem-solving point of view than when we were at school. And yet too often we (parents and teachers alike) still insist on getting straight to...
by Ben | Mar 30, 2016 | Uncategorized
Studies reveal that we now have a shorter attention span than a goldfish. According to a study by Microsoft, on average we have the ability to focus for a mere 8 seconds! This photo shows a man so engrossed in his phone that he misses a humpback whale swimming past...
by Ben | Feb 28, 2016 | Uncategorized
One of the most common complaints heard by a Maths teacher must be, “Why do we need to learn this?” Even though schools now approach all subjects with a more integrated approach, it is often still difficult to explain to a 13 year-old that it is necessary to...
