MagiKats Blog
Tips and advice for parents
Why We Prefer Handwriting at MagiKats
Good handwriting might not seem to be a necessary skill in today’s world where typing documents on a computer at breakneck speed, or sending rapid-fire email messages is the way most companies work. Why teach handwriting at all?
Are minimum qualifications for teachers enough to ensure quality?
I suspect many parents have been pulled up short when they have seen, from the recent press coverage, that many of those charged with their children’s earliest care and education may not have even a grade C GCSE in English and maths.
What Made All the Difference When You Were Ten?
Ask yourself this question: What special things about school and education would you remember if you could go back to when you were a ten year-old?
Tearing your hair out over SATs? Help is here with MagiKats SATs revision programmes!
It may seem like every second week your primary school is testing students to get them ready for the new curriculum being phased in this year. If you’ve had a look at the new standards, it might seem as if this year requires your child to use more reasoning skills in order to do well.
Awards Galore for MagiKats students!
What’s one of the easiest ways in which we can encourage children to learn? Bribery! At MagiKats Tuition Centres, students are rewarded twice a year for the efforts they have put in, both in the workshops and at home.
Forward into summer - and backwards with learning
It’s like one of those GCSE maths questions that attract publicity for their complexity.
MagiKats at home - a parent's perspective
Find out what it’s like to be a MagiKats parent.
Tutoring - is it the answer?
A headline caught my attention! It said: “Ignore the fads: teachers should teach and students should listen.”
About the MagiKats blog
This blog has been created by a family team: Jan Lomas and her daughters, Sarah Marsh and Emma Lomas. We all work as the team behind the ever growing MagiKats Maths and English, offering English and maths workshops to children aged up to about 16.