Grades, university degrees, interview skills, CV strength and personality will all help in your children’s future job hunt. But if they learn coding, you can stop worrying about everything else. It is hard to overstate quite how important coding is becoming these days. In past blogs, we have already interviewed our expert coding tutor, Thomas Magnitis, discussed some of … Read More
Exams are close! Top tips for cramming
We get it. Revision is hard. It takes ages, there’s loads of it, and no one could possibly expect you to have done it all on time, even if you made a revision timetable, or downloaded some super useful apps. Sometimes, cramming is the only answer. Exams are now just around the corner – maybe you’ve even reached the corner, … Read More
How mindfulness meditation can improve your school life
In the last few weeks, we’ve already spoken about the relationship between physical and mental health, and how parents and students can reduce anxiety around the stressful exam period. Virtually every school or research project that has trialled meditation/mindfulness as either a learning aid or an alternative to punishment has reported success. What is mindfulness? To borrow Jon Kabat-Zinn’s definition … Read More
Technique and Time Management: The Keys to Exam Success
As GCSE and A Levels draw near for thousands of students across the UK, this week we’re taking a look at two of the most important strategies for students to remember: exam technique and time management. Here’s the thing: you can revise for hours on end, cover every topic and make spider diagrams until they’re coming out your ears, but … Read More
Minerva’s Top GCSE and A Level Revision Tips
The time when GCSE and A Level revision begins to intensify is nigh. After last week’s blog about how parents and students can deal with exam stress, this week we are looking at some top revision tips for students. There are two overall aims for revision: to make sure it is effective, and to keep it as stress-free as … Read More
Mental Health: How Parents and Students Can Deal With Exam Stress
A report last week revealed that it is not just the mental health of students that suffers because of exam stress, but parents too. What can you do to help alleviate the anxiety of another stressful exam season? How bad is exam stress for parents? In the survey from BBC Radio 5 Live, encompassing 830 parents of children in the … Read More
How Good Physical Health Can Mean Better Mental Health
For far too long, physical health and mental health have often been regarded as distinct – treated and diagnosed separately, and split into issues of ‘mind’ and ‘body’. But is this really helpful? While it’s true that one of the least helpful things one can say to someone suffering with clinical depression is ‘have you tried just going for … Read More
Why Now Is the Time to Make Sex Education Compulsory in Schools.
…and finally the government agrees. All the evidence says the decision is long overdue – and over 70% of adults agree, as a recent survey by charity Plan International UK reveals. UPDATE: WITHIN AN HOUR OF THIS ARTICLE BEING PUBLISHED, THE GOVERNMENT ANNOUNCED AGE-APPROPRIATE SEX EDUCATION WILL BE COMPULSORY IN ALL UK SCHOOLS. Read about the decision here, or read on for the … Read More
Mental Health: What Can Schools Do to Help Students Cope?
Following on from last week’s interview discussing how parents can help struggling teenagers, here is Part 2 of our interview with mental health expert Cami Moorjani. Cami has many years experience working in mental health as both a coach and counsellor to people of all ages, and across the whole mental health spectrum. This time, we talked about how schools … Read More
Mental Health: How Can Parents Help a Child Who’s Struggling?
This week, in order to find out more about the mental health crisis facing young people in the UK, we spoke to Cami Moorjani. Cami has many years experience working in mental health as both a coach and counsellor to people of all ages, and across the whole mental health spectrum. In Part 1 of our interview, we talked about … Read More