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A frank message to a caring parent – January 2023 Dear Fellow Parent, I’d like to take this opportunity to share with you some facts, ideas and opinions, and thereby offer one or two suggestions which you may find useful. Despite my experience and the expertise that I have gained while serving in various positions in the secondary education sector in England since 1993, I will always consider myself a parent first and a teacher second. Before COVID-19, there had […]
It’s all about university application at present – or is it?
We are at that time of the year when 18-year-olds are preoccupied with their application to university. They are busy getting their personal statement finished, hoping for a recommendation in support of their application from the head of sixth form or whichever teacher is going to write in support of their application to the university of their choice. All these are on top of the upcoming mock exams and other commitments they may have. I will start by just summarising […]
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The High Achievers’ Post Your ultimate guide to transforming your child’s academic performance Take Action Tips! Prepare your son or daughter for world class higher education institutions One effective way to teach work ethic and the ability to work independently is to give your son or daughter a domestic-related task to complete. For example, you could tell him/her that it is their responsibility to make sure the household bills are paid on time and properly this month. This could involve […]
Generation Z – more Exposure to people of different cultures
In one those situations when my son is trying to prove to me how much more he knows than me, he will bring me a blank map of the world and ask me to label the countries – or to fill in the gap of missing countries. Another favourite of his is to ask me to identify the flags of countries in the world. There is a bit of inconsistency here. As I wrote in my last blogpost, my children […]
Generation Z and environmental awareness
In my last blogpost titled “Should we give Gen Z some credit?” I explored some of the many areas of life in which the so-called Generation Z are much more aware than, perhaps, we older people were when we were teenagers. Here, I am going to pick one of the five or so areas that I listed and go a little deeper into it. The environment is certainly a topic which everyone knows one or two things about; however, it […]
Should we give Generation Z some credit?
There are all sorts of areas of day-to-day life in which young people are found to be wanting, and we parents are so frustrated that we get emotional at times when trying to get them to do things. The list is so long, and it ranges from the difficulty in trying to have a civilised conversation that is not monosyllabic to persuading them to get out of bed in the morning. This is not to speak of the endless attachment […]
Post-Sixteen qualifications – A-level subjects and courses option after GCSE
The GCSE exam results are released today, with fewer top grades of 7, 8 and 9 (A and A*) being awarded in comparison to last year, but higher than in 2019. Although A-level grades are the main determining criterion for admission into the top universities, GCSEs still matter and there are two reasons for this. High GCSE grades are needed in Maths and English and also in the subjects the students want to study in order to be admitted into […]
A-level Exam Results – accepting university offers
A-level Exam Results – some truths as you decide on university For the first time in three years, A-level exam results that are based on proper exams are released this week. As we do every year, we will see images of jubilant young people with glee on their faces, and their rather proud parents so delighted. The reality this year is that a lower proportion of young people will receive the top grades at both A-level and GCSE. The reason […]
Pleasurable summer activity – Not All Readers are High Achievers But All High Achievers are Readers
A pleasurable summer activity – “Not All Readers are High Achievers, But All High Achievers are Readers” The idea of me reading some fiction story about witchcraft and some silly magic was just not something I could possibly have contemplated. That was until one of my sixteen-year-old students spoke about her fascination with the Harry Potter books, and that was after the third book came out a few years ago. Somehow, I reluctantly bought a copy of that book and, […]
The summer is an opportunity for the teenager to get fitter and healthier!
The summer is an opportunity for the teenager to get fitter and healthier! For the last three or so months, well before the summer holiday started, my daughter has been pestering us about wanting to join a gym. Although I’m okay with the idea on the whole, there are a couple of things on which I have reservations, and I will speak about those later in this blogpost. One of my popular sayings in relation to teenagers about the summer […]
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