Education

Lockerley primary school has been the victim of oil thieves three times in the past eighteen months. The school reopened on January 4^th after the Christmas holidays and there was shock and dismay when the realisation that there was no heating set in. It was decided to close the school again for three days after students bravely tried to function as normal for two days. [Read more →]

To help children with ADHD who are poor spellers, the following techniques have been found to be helpful.

1. Tackle your school's word list (Most schools have a list of spelling words that kids have to know by the end of the year. This is especially true for children in the lower grades (k-3)). Go through the list and figure out which words your child knows. Then make out flash cards with all of the words on them. Make a deal with your child that for every word she learns, he or she earns a reward.
2. Give your child an incentive to read. Turn on the TV and stick a DVD in. For every five minutes of a movie she watches, she has to read one page in a book. You just pause the movie every five minutes and have your child read a page. [Read more →]