General

Creating positive behaviour cycles

Teachers and parents are both aware that it is very possible to find yourself stuck in a negative cycle of behaviour. It may be behaviour in general or it could be specific aspects of behaviour that get struck into a negative cycles. With parents and children for example it may be around bedtimes or mealtimes […]

Phonics

Many little children in year 1 will have taken a phonics screening test recently. This was something that was introduced recently as it is a good indicator of future reading success. Many parents find phonics a bit confusing, especially those who weren’t taught to read themselves using this method. With a phonic approach the emphasis is […]

Jan 2015 Cultures for Learning

I read an article to day about how getting children to be more active within classrooms can actually help them to learn. It didn’t seem surprising to me at all, what is surprising is the way we expect even small children to spend large parts of their day actually sitting down. Small children move constantly, as […]

New Year New Year

So here we are at the end of another year. Its a great time for reflection and one where we it seems almost natural to ‘review’ various aspects of our lives – oh and of course its a time for resolutions. Love them or hate them even if we don’t actually make any we will […]

December

  December Wow how time flies! Just completed another Sounds-write training course with teachers in Milton Keynes and enjoyed delivering training with one of the authors of the Sounds-write programme. His blog is packed with interesting info on learning to read and phonics so if you want to have a look just follow the link […]

October

Just had a brilliant few days on a Sounds-write training course at a local lower school with teachers and teaching assistants from various schools in the borough. The course took place in a school where they use Sounds-write throughout the school and they can boast amazing results in the phonics test achieving 98% and 96% pass rate […]

September

As the days turn chillier and the nights are drawing in many children will be settling into new schools or classes or have possibly started school for the first time. If you have children who will soon be learning to read the following article may give some useful information http://sheilamulvenney.hubpages.com/hub/How-Parents-Can-teach-Pre-Reading-skills We are also pleased to announce that […]

July

The summer has so far been a busy one at Attuned Education as we have been teaching English to students from the Ukraine, Poland, France and Spain. We have also had several students for intensive phonics courses, had new clients for coaching and tapping, started teaching ESOL classes at the hospital, delivered training to some staff at […]

summer

Exciting times for us as we are hosting lots of students from overseas, seeing an increase in tapping clients and launching our exciting new weight loss programme on 7th July at Embankment hotel at 6.30pm. It’s called Tap yourself thin and what makes it so unique is that it not only addresses eating and exercise […]

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For all those revising and studying hard – remember it is good to make a revision timetable – as it is also important that you have time off from study. Half an hour of concentrated work is better than several hours simply staring at books – revision is active so try some of the following […]