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Brain Food, Mood Food, What Food?

Brain Food, Mood Food, What Food?

From the outset, I’m not a nutritionist, just a busy mum of 2 hyper, hilarious and hungry (!) boys, who recognises the power of good nutrition to aid brain development and behaviours in my children…..as well as my husband and me! What I am saying isn’t advice, I just would love to share 2 books that have given me guidance and well-founded information on how to approach the meals and snacks I prepare, as well as the foods to use. There is a wealth of information on the benef

Further Visual Difficulties - Visual Stress

Further Visual Difficulties - Visual Stress

Last week, Liz shared her experiences on the importance of sight and hearing checks. I am following on as, with all three of my children, I had taken them for a sight check and their vision was apparently ok. However, I was still concerned as they did odd things, such as moving the page closer and further away and my daughter would not look at piano music, instead, trying to play by memory. We moved to a different optician who specialised in something called Visual Stress o

The Importance of Sight and Hearing Tests

The Importance of Sight and Hearing Tests

In our work as teachers and specialist teachers, we support children in developing their learning using our expertise from training and experience. If a child is experiencing difficulty in acquiring new knowledge, the answer can sometimes be obvious to us, such as a need to develop their phonic knowledge before they can efficiently read words. However, on other occasions we can find ourselves unpicking a mystery. To give you a couple of examples, having worked with a school f

Exciting Apps to Support Learning

Exciting Apps to Support Learning

The summer holidays have arrived!!! What are you going to do with the children to keep them happy for the next few weeks? This week, Da Vinci School brings you app ideas to keep little brains ticking over the summer holidays! Of course, this is a time of rest and relaxation after a long year of hard work and study. However, as parents we don’t want all of that learning to grow dim and slide away. Carefully chosen apps on a tablet can keep parent and child happy by presenting