We are about to hit the October half term holidays and we can already hear the ghouls whining on those misty mornings. I'm Bored!' they call. 'I don't know what to dooooooo!' By ghouls we mean our children of course ;) So what can we do to keep the wee beasties busy during this break?

One of the most common activities set as homework for children in primary school is spellings practise. Lists of commonly used words are given out depending on your child's age for them to learn how to spell. But given that nowadays if you give a child an iPad, they are more of a whizz on it than you are, in our tech-heavy world, are they even going to need to be able to spell? Why are they still learning spellings? Well, let's break it down a little bit. The reason that chil

The uniforms are back on, the lunchboxes are being packed and everyone is slowly getting used to the school routine again. And then… the homework starts coming home. Reading books. Spellings. Times tables. Number bonds. Maybe a worksheet or two. Suddenly, after your child has spent an entire day learning at school, you’re expected to convince them that what they really want to do when they get home is… more learning. And we all know how that conversation can go. “But I’ve bee

When my children started learning their times tables at school I knew the first thing I was going to do was turn them into something fun for us to do together. Partly because I love to do this anyway, but mostly because I could NOT remember them myself.

Easter themed ideas to keep the kids busy over the 2 weeks holidays. Free, easy and fun!

Number bonds explained with ways to make it fun to support your child to learn them

Here at 2W2L we are BIG fans of reading, but does that naturally mean our kids always have been? Of course not. But with years of experience in teaching we know the tricks of the trade to help encourage them to become happy little book worms. So here are some of your questions answered and our secrets explained… What does it mean to be a reluctant reader? For children, there can be many times when they are reluctant to read or pick up books. This is all part of typical devel

Here at 2Weeks2Learn we KNEW you lot would all love a guide on handwriting because on our social channels every time we asked, ‘what guide should we do next?’ There was always a large proportion of you that said ‘HANDWRITING!’ So we obliged. But just why is having good handwriting so important to schools and do our kids ACTUALLY still need decent penmanship or it is just a throwback to the days of letter writing? Let's talk about some important stuff to do with handwriting sh