MagiKats Blog
Tips and advice for parents
At What Age Can My Child Think?
How a MagiKats “Stage of Learning” provides a uniquely designed curriculum programme to help your child navigate Maths and English tuition gaps with ease.
The MagiKats KS1 and KS2 Revision Programme for 2017
The new, tougher SATS are here to stay (for now at least) and the MagiKats revision programmes - completely re-written last year for the new requirements – are back!
Avoid ‘over-tutoring’ your child and learn with MagiKats
Find out how to avoid over-tutoring and get top results with MagiKats. Your child’s education success should match their enjoyment of learning.
What Is Effective Communication?
At every stage of the MagiKats process, there is effective communication. Find out how we ensure every student receives and contributes constructive feedback.
School summer holidays – the key to your child’s happiness and success?
The summer holidays are possibly the most important six weeks of the school year! The hardest times in anyone’s education are the times of change and the toughest of all is the move from primary to secondary.
Looking forward to Summer? Spare a Thought for Summer Learning Loss
Summer learning loss or the ‘summer slide’ is something researchers have been looking into for more than a century. First documented in 1906, what starts as a mild hiccup in a four-year-old’s school career can be a crisis by the time that child reaches secondary school.
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.