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20/06/2021
Welcome to Monday's Mind Bender!
Brain teasers encourage you to think outside the restraints of convention, outside the box if you will. Lateral thinking is considered a desirable skill in many workplaces and should be encouraged from a young age. Brain teasers will help to build those skills.
Today's is aimed more at adults but teens are also very good at this kind of logic and may enjoy the challenge!
18/06/2021
Welcome to Friday Funday!
Word puzzles are fantastic for building vocabulary. Let's see how many of you can reach the target!
Have a funtastic weekend!
17/06/2021
Welcome to Thursday's teacher tip!
From a very early age we learn through play. For some reason as we get older, the expectation is to learn more formally. While this is the conventional way of learning and teaching, we encourage our students to continue to learn through play. Using tactile learning techniques such as sand sums, or board games and pieces, to learn some of the more traditional aspects of the curriculum.
Next time you're doing math homework with your little one, crank out the dominoes and add the numbers. For older kids, try multiplying them.
While reading is always beneficial, so is story telling. Ask your child to recount their day to you or let them help you make up their bedtime story.
Card games are great for memory, sequencing and pattern recognition. Checkers or chess are great for strategy.
Simple things you can encourage at home to help with basic skills to help further their learning.
Bring back family game night we say!
16/06/2021
Welcome to Wellbeing Wednesday! Today's tip is gratitude exercise that I'd like to share. We often focus on the negative or stressful things that happen to us. But it is important to remind our brains that there was positive things as well.
Gratitude exercises are very good for your mental health and are often one of the first steps in dealing with depression and anxiety. By listing two or three things you are grateful for you begin to shift the focus of your mind. Repeated practice of this can have an incredible long lasting effect on mental health and wellbeing.
You can go all out with this and make one of the following:
a gratitude jar https://www.mindbodygreen.com/0-11062/how-to-create-a-gratitude-jar.html
a happiness flower https://blissfulkids.com/mindfulness-for-kids-gratitude-flowers/
or even a thankfulness tree https://theimaginationtree.com/6-activities-teach-thankfulness/
But in all honesty this doesn't have to be the case at all. Simply writing three words on a piece of paper and carrying it in your pocket is enough. Even having a small rock or a feather that you write a word on or attach to them can give a physical sense to the gratitude.
Try some of these ideas with your kids and let us know how you went! We would love to see what you make!
10/06/2021
Grounding is an amazing strategy for anxiety and meltdowns. Practising these techniques while not in the state of anxiety or overload will help to create a healthy response to anxiety when it does happen. Why not give it a try?
Welcome to SPLAT! We are currently not taking any new students. However stay tuned to receive tips for a variety of things regarding learning! These include homework and study tips, mental health and well-being, and relaxation tips for exams!
Stay happy and healthy everyone!
10/09/2020
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