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Parent-teacher relationship vital to home schooling #UKEdChat Primary teachers providing a range of practical and emotional support alongside academic assistance to parents

A research survey of primary school teachers in England has emphasized the importance of the relationship between parents and primary schools during lockdown school closures, with teachers providing a range of practical and emotional support alongside academic assistance to parents to try and negate perceived disadvantages in home circumstances. With schools closed from March 2020 until the end…

A Parent’s Guide to Supporting Learning

#UKEdChat session 520.

Giving clear support guidance can have a real impact on learning

Keeping support optional allows flexibility

Giving direction to parental support can build the teacher-parent relationship

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#UKEdChat session 520 – During the Covid pandemic, the role of the parent to assist remote learning has taken on greater importance, and in some ways…

NEW #UKEdChat post: Learning at home - Alternative Learning Experiences by @EmmainKuwait now also at

With most children now home from school for the foreseeable future many parents will be facing the ongoing battle of trying to engage their children in home school. As teachers, we are in a fortunate position to be able to access resources and provide an environment for our children to continue their learning at home as smoothly as possible. However, we appreciate not all parents are in this…

NEW: Maintaining progress for children with learning, language disorders

With millions of families adjusting to a “new normal” at home with children out of school, those children with language or learning disorders are disproportionately affected by the disruption to their daily routines.

Faculty members in the University of Mississippi’s Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders provide intensive language therapy for young children with moderate to severe…

8 Magic Science Experiments for Science Weeks, Science Clubs and more

British Science Week is here and if you’re looking for some fun science demonstrations to amaze your class then here are good examples to show them. The children could carry these out too, perhaps as part of a circus of experiments around the classroom.

These work best if you use a bit of showmanship to dress them up as magic tricks – and then explain the science behind them.

Balance a penny on…