Supporting your child's learning

Below are links to information from Kirk Lees Council.  Kirk Lees Council offers lots of excellent advice on how to help your child to be happy and ready to learn at school.  Although the site is targeted at GCSE students, many of the tips are still important for children at Primary School too.

Top Tips for Supporting Learning
A series of tips that can help your child to do their best.

Healthy Eating
Information about how to help your child to be ready to learn by eating healthily.

Being Fit to Learn
Information about how to help your child to be ready to learn by making sure they are fit and get enough sleep.   There is also some information about how to help your child to calm down and stay relaxed.

Brain Gym
Warm up games to get your child's brain working.  These can be a great way to put your child in a working mood!

Brain Breaks
Memory games designed to help your child learn how to retain information.

Boys and Tests
Boys can find testing tricky.  Here are some tips for how to help boys to deal with tests.

Making Mind Maps
Making Mind Maps is an effective way to help your children to remember information, and is something they are encouraged to do at school.  This guide briefly explains how to help your child make them.

What type of learner is your child?
We don’t all learn in the same way, as you probably know from discussions in school. This also means that the most effective ways for some people to revise are often not the most effective ways for others to revise. Notes might work for some, tapes for others, diagrams and maps might suit you but using the internet might suit others better.  This guide explains the differences between different styles of learning.

Learning Styles Test
Knowing whether your child learns best by listening, looking or doing things can be a real help in working out how best to help them.  This link is to a simple questionnaire that may help you understand which type of learner your child is, and how to best explain things to them.

Using Learning Styles
An example of how to teach information that is targeted at children with a certain learning style.