It’s that time of year. Some schools in our area got their out of the way before Christmas, but others are in full swing, right now. First and foremost – Please don’t panic. Mock results can be disheartening but there is still plenty of time to turn things around. The secret is good quality revision. […]

Last week my daughter’s science groups released the butterflies they had been hatching. I gather it was a really lovely event, watching these young insects, who the children had been studying and caring for, find their wings and fly off into the great unknown. I’m told the adults were as excited as the children. Sitting […]

Now we are drawing towards the end of the school year, The Kent test begins to loom large. I’ve attached a couple of documents, in the Links section of this website, that might be of use in helping your child to revise. I knocked up these assessments for our students to help us tailor their […]

Recently a number of parents have told me how strange they find some of the methods their children use in maths. Two of the big queries are ‘chunking’ – more about that one later- and ‘exchanging’. Some of our tutors are available for daytime sessions to help parents learn these different methods, but below is […]

I often have parents asking what certain words mean, like modifier or determiner. To be honest when the new curriculum was introduced a few years back there were a number of teachers asking the same thing. These technical terms cover everyday words we use all the time and until a few years ago using them […]

First of all, a very Happy New Year to you all. I hope you had a lovely break from work/school/college and are raring to make a start on the new term. I’m not much of a resolution person, myself. The minute I give up something the craving for that very thing kicks in; the minute […]

Many of you break up tomorrow – a few of us have a couple more days – and here at EKT we’d all like to wish you a very happy Christmas break.   We’ve been spending the last few days looking at Christmas logic puzzles, Christmas BIDMAS and working out the best strategies for discovering […]

Let’s face it, no one likes editing – knocking out a 15,000 word dissertation wasn’t exactly fun, but it was a piece of cake compared to the agony of editing it – so no wonder our youngsters aren’t all that keen. But good editing makes a huge difference to the marks we get – the 15,000 […]

It’s that week. The week many of our youngsters will be picking up GCSE results; this year we have a record number of students who will be collecting English and maths results. If you are one of our students, or if your child is, I want to say how enormously proud of you we are. […]

Comparisons can be useful, of course they can – does this pair of shoes fit better than that pair? But children aren’t shoes and comparing children is totally different ballgame. I use twitter, usually under my own ID but occasionally I use the EKT identity. Twitter has been on fire – hotter than the weather. As […]