Strategic thinking can be a valuable skill, both in business and your personal life. Strategic thinking refers to the ability to think about, assess, evaluate and arrive at decisions about the future. It is, in fact, the way in which you use your thinking and would, therefore, be classified as a critical thinking skill. Leadership…
There are various routes to finding English as a foreign language teachers. We explore how we offer a service to help you to find the most suitable English as a foreign language teacher for your needs. Finding the best English as a foreign language teacher for you An English teacher who is a foreign language…
Myelin Academia has set a new precedence in the industry as the first tutor training to be recognised by an OFQUAL regulated awarding organisation, Training Qualifications UK. Their Level 3 Award in Applied Tutor Training represents a new entry-level for tutoring. (Make sure to find a wonderful discount code for training with Myelin Academia below.)…
French has been described as one of the hardest Latin-based languages to learn, especially for English speakers. The most challenging part of French learning seems to be pronunciation. French has sounds that English speakers aren’t used to. This is why French is forever marked as a difficult language to learn. Neither English nor French is…
Find the best schools Northern Ireland league table 2021 listed below. Here’s our Best Welsh schools 2021 and also our Top Scottish schools 2021. Then next our Best West Midlands schools 2021 and our good East Anglia schools 2021. And then next are our Best North East schools 2021. Next our Top Schools South East 2021 and top schools East Midlands 2021. Also our Best North…
Find the best Welsh schools 2021 listed below. No other school has pulled off a transformation on the same scale as Ysgol Y Preseli, our Welsh State Secondary School of the Decade. En route to winning one of our unique awards for this pandemic year, the 800-pupil bilingual school has soared nearly 300 places in…
Find the best Scottish schools 2021 listed below. East Renfrewshire breaks new ground in this year’s Parent Power as the first local authority to have all of its secondary schools in our rankings of the top 100 schools in Scotland. Good Scottish schools 2021 Three of its seven schools, southwest of Glasgow – St Ninian’s…
Features of the best West Midlands schools 2021 listed below. King Edward VI School, is Shakespeare’s school in Stratford-upon-Avon, is The Sunday Times State Secondary School of the Decade. It has shown the greatest improvement over the past 10 years. From 93rd place in 2011, it reached 12th place last year. King Edward School in…
Summary features of the best North East schools 2021 are listed below. Durham is clearly the region’s educational hotspot. It has the fewest schools overall in our state and independent rankings But it still manages to have a small number of the best schools in the country, achieving the highest grades at A-level and GCSE.…
Summary features of the best schools south east schools 2021 listed below. 244 high-performing state and independent schools featuring in our rankings, contributes four of our 26 Schools of the Decade. 133 of the 500 top-performing state secondary schools are to be found in the southeast Yet the appetite for independent education is huge, with…
Features of the best schools North West 2021 listed below. A strong showing for primary schools in the northwest in this year’s Parent Power rankings. Took 81 / 500 of the Sunday Times places… Made up of 50 state secondary schools and 31 independents from the northwest. So the north west is one of the leading…
Find a comprehensive list of the Best Northern schools 2021 below. Competition in education is fierce in Yorkshire with a three-way tussle for supremacy between the independent, grammar and comprehensive sectors. Some of the best schools in the country are to be found here — underlined by the award of three Schools of the Decade in…
Summary features of the Best East Anglia schools 2021 listed below. The digital learning revolution came early to the Stephen Perse Foundation, our East Anglia Independent School of the Decade. Former headteacher Tricia Kelleher, who retired last summer, brought in screens alongside books nearly 10 years ago, posting a series of lessons on iTunes, available…
Find the list for the Best London schools 2021 below. This year, London represented 86 of the top 500 state secondaries and 65 of the best independent schools. Top of the London Schools Table St Paul’s Girls’ School has topped the Sunday Times independent school rankings for nine years straight. Similarly, Barnet’s highly selective boys’…
Read more below as to which are the Best Schools East Midlands 2021. Eight of the top 10 state secondary schools in the East Midlands are part of the Lincolnshire Consortium of Grammar Schools, led by Caistor Grammar School, The Sunday Times East Midlands State Secondary School of the Decade. Over the past 10 years,…
Tennis player turned executive performance coach, Marius Barnard discusses what broader life lessons young players can learn through their participation in sport. How their self-belief can be built through their participation in sport. Coaches, parents and players often overlook character building and individual development when assessing the benefits of sport and what it can teach…
What are the key points to remember when asking for a private school bursary? Want to send your child to private school, but don’t have the necessary funds? We give you some top private school bursary tips below. Asking for a private school bursary The cost of private schools continues to increase above the rate…
Times have changed. You can no longer just phone up a chosen school or attend a few different Sixth Forms that seem of interest. As most of the world has moved online, so has school applications. This, of course, includes open days turning into virtual open evenings and virtual video tours. This is not all…
Girls in Data and Pioneer launched some amazing initiatives over this summer and through the lockdown. They have been working hard at bridging the gap between commercial business problems and education. With a mission of helping girls become aware of the many opportunities in data, they created a platform to not only talk about it…
Hope you find these private school interview tips useful. * * * CONTENT UPDATED OCTOBER 2020 * * * How to succeed in a private school interview So your child has done all the hard work, right? They’ve passed their 11 Plus entrance exams. Now all they’ve got to do is show up for the…
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Our focus in this week’s blog is on 11+ English Papers Practice Tips. 11+ English Practice / 11+ English Tips Your understanding will be tested in many different ways, including: Presenting the same information in a different way Identifying the key points Distinguishing between what is portrayed as fact and fiction Inferences Deductions There are…
Welcome to our 11+ blog titled, CAT4 Tests Practice – A Parent’s Guide * * * CONTENT UPDATED OCTOBER 2020 * * * In this GL Assessment CAT4 Tests Practice Intro, we will discuss all details surrounding the CAT4 and its uses. If your child would benefit from a premium CAT4 practice tests. Our…
Welcome to our 11 plus blog titled, 11 plus Exam Board Differences. * * * CONTENT UPDATED OCTOBER 2020 * * * Learn more about the 11 plus exam board differences Key 11 Plus Exam Board Differences CEM, GL and CSSE 11 Plus exams CEM and GL are two different exam boards that are the…
Are your children supporting their community, nature or the world at large? Do your children care about the world around them? Are they striving to make a difference? Enter their efforts, no matter how big or small, into the Pearson World Changer Awards before Friday 23 rd October! It could be the game-changer they need.…
Welcome to our 11+ blog titled, What’s the percentage pass mark for 11 plus? * * * CONTENT UPDATED OCTOBER 2020 * * * Most 11-plus results came out in mid-October, for example: Bexley: 7th Oct.; and Plymouth: 7 Dec. Kent’s 11 plus test results were posted 2nd Nov. and for those registered online. CSSE…
Welcome to our 11+ blog titled, 11 Plus Maths Sample Test. * * * CONTENT UPDATED OCTOBER 2020 * * * Ten Minute 11 Plus Maths Tests Welcome to a sample to the rest of our Ten Minute 11 Plus Maths Test. Can you answer all 5 questions quickly, but correctly? This is only a…
Children born today will not know a life without their devices. Screen Addiction is the symptom, not the root cause. The root cause is the loss of connection. How many of us experience that moment of extreme tension when getting our children to come off their devices? These apps are designed to be addictive, that…
Welcome to our 11+ blog titled, When is 11 Plus results day?. * * * CONTENT UPDATED NOVEMBER 2020 * * * Welcome to our 11+ blog entry called ‘When is 11 Plus results day?’. Our other 11+ blog entries are listed at the bottom of this page. When is our county’s 11 plus…
What might an international pupil expect from a Sixth Form UK boarding school education? Gone are the days when a UK boarding school education might have been associated, rightly or wrongly, with the strictest of rules, regulations and routines that only the most rigid conformist might hope to navigate unscathed. However, today’s UK boarding schools…