Daisy and Liz

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 children learn to...

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 been at school ALL...

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.