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Homework’s Role in an Exam Year Homework is designed to consolidate and build on what your child is learning at school: it can help to improve their grades and knowledge. Especially when it comes [...]

Where’s the Best Place to Revise? ‘A coffee shop, a friend’s house or in my bedroom…where do I want to revise today?’ your teenager may wonder! Whilst you want your teenager to be comfortable in [...]

What’s the Point in Prelims? Firstly, as a parent, it’s vital you grasp a hold of how relevant prelims are. If your child is at Highers or Advanced Highers Level, you might find prelim results [...]

Taking the horror out of homework 🧟🧟 Monday everyone is too tired, Tuesday you have something on after school, Wednesday it’s all forgotten, Thursday is almost Friday, and now [...]

When is the right time to start revision, the answer might surprise you? We tend to think revision is what comes at the end of the term. That there is a set time to start revision, and for most [...]

Active Listening: Learning to Listen Well Listening. That’s easy, right? Sit still and listen: that’s all your teenager has to do… Unfortunately, it’s not as straightforward as that. Listening [...]

How to Practise Past Papers Effectively Practice past papers- they’re the one thing students may wail at when they see another one: “Why am I doing another one, again?!” Whilst in your teen’s [...]

Hints for October Half Term Realistically, half term isn’t long enough for a huge wealth of revision. However, it’s certainly time to get on top of some study- and get ahead with revision! [...]

Mentally Equipped for an Exam Year? The exam year your teen is about to face will no doubt have levels of challenge and difficulty. There’ll be times where your child requires resilience; your [...]

Knowledge (really is!) Power ‘Knowledge is power’ teachers cry out to the class! Yet- when it comes to exams- it can feel like all the focus is on passing a very specific set of exams. However, [...]