MagiKats Blog

Tips and advice for parents

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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.

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A rough guide to the stages of learning and what it means to you when helping your child succeed in a positive manner.

Some new parents ask that their children be given more homework. This is a natural thought.  They can see their child making good progress on 5 or 10 minutes a day so it seems a perfectly logical expectation that they could be ready to go to university by year 7 if only they did half an hour a day! Unfortunately, rather like pensions, what you put in does not necessarily relate to what you get out.

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The culture of coaching

I've just read an excellent article by Alice Pung in today's Weekend Australian and The Monthly magazine. My favourite quote from that article is this one: "Even private schools are beginning to acknowledge a coached student may not necessarily have the type of rounded, inquisitive mind that they are after.

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KS2 English

In the recent change to KS2 English SATs, a bigger focus has been placed on spelling, punctuation and grammar (SPAG). Working in a school, I can’t help but notice the lack of immediacy when it comes to corrections of SPAG errors.

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