Category: Parenting Tips & Advice
Mar 14 Parenting Tips & Advice
The Powerful Relationship That Will Help Shape Your Child’s Future
School gates are interesting. We enter them as wee beings, full of parental love and hungry for learning. We leave them a decade or more later, excited and ready to take our place in the world. But what do those school gates represent in the interim?
Feb 14 Parenting Tips & Advice
Why is playgroup important in the early years?
By Maria Hodges, Head of Junior School at Wesley College Being a new parent is a constant maze of trying to navigate what you should and shouldn’t do to help give your little human the very best start in life. There are differing opinions on this subject, but it is clear that children who are…
Feb 2 Parenting Tips & Advice
The 7Cs your child needs for success
Parents and teachers appear to be facing ever-increasing pressures to help children lead successful lives, clouded by an uncertain future. It seems that every time we turn on the TV or radio, read an article or follow a social media thread, we are being told that we need to improve the learning and life outcomes of our children.
Oct 18 Parenting Tips & Advice
Seven tips for achieving academic success
At Wesley we measure academic success using traditional metrics (grades, tests) as well as monitoring students’ Learning Habits which are the skills and dispositions increasingly recognised as important for students to thrive into their futures (for example motivation, organisation and collaboration to name a few).
Aug 23 Parenting Tips & Advice
Differentiation: tailoring teaching to learners
Differentiated instruction is not a new trend. It is based on best practices in education. It puts students at the centre of teaching and learning and it lets their learning needs direct instructional planning.