Is Latin an important topic to learn at school?  If not, what other practical skills should children learn?
The benefits of touch typing for children

What is Touch Typing? Learning to touch type enables you to type letters, numbers, punctuation and symbols without looking at the keyboard.  This process relies on muscle memory, the same type of memory used to learn an instrument or sport. When is the right time to...

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Is Latin an important topic to learn at school?  If not, what other practical skills should children learn?
Type IT! and the Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme

Type IT! and the Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme What is the DofE? The Duke of Edinburgh award scheme is an opportunity to discover new interests and a tool to develop essential skills for life and work.   It is also respected by employers as a mark of achievement....

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Is Latin an important topic to learn at school?  If not, what other practical skills should children learn?
Things for kids to do in the summer for free!

Things for kids to do in the summer for free! At home or outdoors Mini beast hunt. You can find some useful identification charts here https://www.rbkc.gov.uk/PDF/Minbeasts%20pack.pdf Craft with nature Collect fallen leaves, petals and twigs and make your own...

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Is Latin an important topic to learn at school?  If not, what other practical skills should children learn?
Typing and technology through the ages!

Typing and technology through the ages by a 47 year old. What has your experience been with typing and technology through the years?   I remember my son asking me if cars were "a thing" when I was young! At age 47, it is funny to think that when I was a child, all...

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Is Latin an important topic to learn at school?  If not, what other practical skills should children learn?
Type in comfort – Here are our Type IT! Hayfever tips

Type in comfort - Here are our Type IT! Hay fever tips We always like our students to type in comfort.  Hay fever is something which affects a lot of us and there is nothing worse than sitting in a classroom or in front of a computer at work, with itchy eyes, a tickly...

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Is Latin an important topic to learn at school?  If not, what other practical skills should children learn?
How do you create a good work/life balance?

How do you create a good work/life balance? I thought about this subject this week, as, no matter how hard I try, I am really struggling to fit in my exercise and my "Get fit with Rick" videos without a child using the front room where I exercise or my husband coming...

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Is Latin an important topic to learn at school?  If not, what other practical skills should children learn?
Top 10 typing tips – how to type in comfort

Top 10 typing tips These tips seem particularly important to me at the moment.   During lockdown I have been working at the kitchen table which is the wrong height but luckily, I have a monitor stand, a decent chair and as a touch typist I have managed to save my neck...

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