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Advice Column, Child, Education, Mainstream Education, Parenting, Tween & Teen

Four ways to boost your academic portfolio during lockdown

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Schools across South Africa opened on June 1 in a phased approach, starting with grades 12 and 7. However, strict social distancing measures will prevent most sporting and cultural extracurricular activities from taking place, and some parents may decide to keep their children at home altogether. Students who have set their sights on top universities, both locally and overseas, must demonstrate innovation in order to stand out and build impressive application portfolios.

Advice Column, Education, Mainstream Education, Parenting, Tween & Teen

Managing Matric in a time of turmoil

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For the majority or learners, Matric is the most challenging year of their school careers – even under normal circumstances. The current circumstances facing the Class of 2020 are unprecedented, and have caused massive upheaval and uncertainty on top of the challenges they would ordinarily have faced. Even so, there are ways learners can adjust and respond to ensure they still make a success of the year, an education expert says.

Advice Column, Education, Mainstream Education, Parenting, Study Tips, Tween & Teen

Matric mid-year exams: create your own lockdown stimulation

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Under normal circumstances, Matric mid-year exams provide a valuable benchmark from which to launch the final push towards the finals. Because of the Covid-19 lockdown, there will be no official mid-year exams this year, but learners should still aim to re-create their own exam experience at home as this provides valuable practise and insights, and an opportunity to improve their performance later this year, an education expert says.

Advice Column, Parenting

Finding joy in the simple, everyday tasks

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Now that families are spending their time working, learning and playing from home, parents are juggling an overwhelming amount of responsibility, and finding time to engage in structured playtime with the kids is more challenging than ever. But, while playtime as a family is crucial for building strong family ties and developing a variety of important skills in children, there are other ways that parents can achieve all of this without adding any more stress to their day.

Advice Column, Education

Treverton

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Since schools resumed for terms 2, we have providing online education throughout lockdown from Grades 000 right through to Grade 12. Our teachers are well equipped to continue with the syllabus and have use the opportunity to be creative in providing a platform that is informative, interactive and fun through the learning process.

Advice Column, Education, Parenting

How to help your child think critically

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Have you ever experienced your child challenging something you have told them? It may seem frustrating, however I urge you to encourage your child’s natural instincts to inquire about the world around them. Critical thinking is beneficial for a number of reasons, it forms a vital role in their development and it helps them make sense of the world around them. It allows them to ask valuable questions and make valued judgements, and try to figure things out if they don’t make sense.

Advice Column, Early Learning, Education, Toddler

Cleverdon Preschool

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Our engaging and inspired teachers take a zoom class each morning at a set time where they cover brain gym/movement, theme related topics, songs, sensory activities, science experiments, baking, stories and fun activities, which develop the preschool skills. Further activities and videos are loaded onto the google classroom for each class which the parents and children can access.

Advice Column, Child, Parenting, Toddler

There is a Monster Under my Bed!

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It is normal for children to be afraid of the dark at some stage or another. Preschoolers aren’t always able to distinguish between reality and fantasy. Couple this with very active imaginations and it becomes easy for them to believe monsters are under the bed or in the cupboards, waiting to pounce once the lights go out.

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