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Six Weeks of Summer Holidays!
Summer is a time for hope and wonder for most young children. It’s a time where they’ve put the previous year of school behind them, and do not have to worry about the next school year for at least two months. Many children wish to put the things they’ve learned as far back in their brain as possible – and focus on the important things like digging for worms, playing football, jumping in a pool or eating as much ice cream as possible.
Those Hazy Months of July and August
If your child is of this mindset – and they probably are once the sun is shining and the weather heats up – there are things that you can do to help prevent summer learning loss in your children. The hazy months of...
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Updated: 03/06/11
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Does Learning to Read Early Truly Produce Lasting Advantages?
Studies show that children from four months to three years learn faster than children aged four years and older, and this age bracket is the one that can benefit the most from an early education. If you are reading to and with your children at this early age, they will better be positioned to pick up on language and speech patterns, to learn words and sentences and to begin speaking early. Advances in these areas at an early age will allow them to remain ahead of their peers, and learn at a highly accelerated curve as they continue to master language and communication at an early age.
What is Early Reading?
Early reading is more than reading to and with your child. Learning to read early and independently by age three or four is the combination of decoding words accurately and effective comprehension skills borne out of good...
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Updated: 03/06/11
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What Could Children Possibly Gain from Saturday School?
It may sound like a punishment for your young elementary age children – and they may protest it until they are blue in the face – but Saturday school may not be the drag that they are anticipating. While some may criticize Saturday school for being an ineffective overload, many others look to this resource as a way to keep their child sharp, to supplement their education and to further time spent under instruction.
Multiply your child’s educational opportunities
Saturday schools help to further the study that longer school weeks improve academic performance. If your children are attending school six days a week, they are multiplying their educational opportunities by as...
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Updated: 02/06/11
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How to...Improve Your Child's Maths
Even if the 11+ is not the goal for your child, maths holds a very important place in the life of a child and continues to be a vital cog right from early primary school until higher education and even plays a deciding factor in the choice of profession. Having said that, not every one can be a maths expert, but one can try to be maths literate at least. So, you could follow some simple steps to help improve your child’s numeracy:
- Make concepts clear: The subject of maths survives on ‘concepts’. If your child has mastered the concepts of mathematics, nobody could stop him from excelling in the subject. Hence you should make sure that your child is thoroughly grounded in all the concepts and you should patiently go over the fundamentals if he gets stuck at any point.
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Updated: 23/03/11
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How to...Improve Your Child's Comprehension Skills
Reading comprehension requires motivation, a mental framework for holding ideas, concentration and good study techniques. So, in order to foster the skills of effective reading comprehension in your child, you could try the following:
- Develop your child's general knowledge: Make efforts to broaden her background knowledge on different events and happenings. Get her to read newspapers, magazines, books and articles on world events. Subscribe to First News, an awarding-winning weekly newspaper for age 7-14 years.
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Updated: 22/03/11
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How to... Improve Your Child's Chances at the 11+
11+ Successes
Leaders are Readers Success Rate 2011
Percentage who succeeded in the Stage 1 exams of their first choice school: 100%
Percentage who succeeded in the Stage 2 exams of their first choice school: 80%
Students attending the LaR 11+ programme performed very well in assessments for the following highly regarded schools:
- Latymer School
- Queen Elizabeth School for Boys
- Haberdashers' Aske's School for Girls
- Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School
Top tips for parents - arising from recent years' 11+ entrance procedure: Vocabulary! Vocabulary! Vocabulary!
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Updated: 18/03/11
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How to... Improve Your Child's Chances at 7+ Assessments
7+ Successes
Leaders are Readers Success Rate 2011
100%
Students attending the Leaders are Readers 7+ programme performed very well in assessments for the following highly regarded schools:
- Haberdashers' Aske's School for Girls
- Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School
- North London Collegiate School
- University College School
Top tips for parents - arising from recent years' 7+ entrance procedure: Fluent reading ability, aptitude for comprehension including understanding of some complex vocabulary, story writing and mathematical skills, as well as a general mathematical reasoning ability appropriate for age 9, guaranteed that all candidates were called back for interviews at the above highly competitive schools.
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Updated: 17/03/11
7+, 5+, 4+ Assessments Maths English
How to... Improve Your Child's Chances at 5+ Assessments
5+ Successes
Leaders are Readers Success Rate 2011
100%
Students attending the LaR Reading Programme received offers from the following highly regarded schools listed below. 5+ candidates may also enrol on the 5+ Maths Programme and fluent readers may also enrol on the 5+ English Programme (Language Sense).
- Haberdashers' Aske's School for Girls
- Manor Lodge School
Top tips for parents - arising from recent years' 5+ entrance procedure: Successful candidates appeared to have in common alertness, maturity and lack of wilful behaviour which led to cooperative and disciplined comportment with the assessors, and sociable interaction with other candidates, enabling the candidates' strong reading and mathematical skills to be easily appreciated and assessed.
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Updated: 16/03/11
7+, 5+, 4+ Assessments Maths English
How to... Improve Your Child's Chances at 4+ Assessments
4+ Successes
Leaders are Readers Success Rate 2011
100%
Students attending the LaR Reading Programme received offers from the following highly regarded schools:
- Haberdashers' Aske's School for Girls
- North London Collegiate School
- St Albans School for Girls
- Radlett Preparatory
Top tips for parents - arising from recent years' 4+ entrance procedure: The students who received all of the offers at the above schools shared an ability to read well, willingness to cooperate with the assessors and lack of distractibility.
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Updated: 15/03/11
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