Top reasons to choose Home Schooling for your kids

Mar 22 2023
mum and son in front of the computer doing home schooling posing for mums magazine

There are many options out there when it comes to educating children, and home education is one of them. Most people got a Taste of Home Schooling during the pandemic, and while some people make it a permanent fixture in their home, not many other people do. There are many reasons that people do choose to homeschool however, and whether you’ve chosen this path yourself recently or you are old hat and have been doing it for years, there are plenty of benefits out there for you and for your children.

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What to do if your children hate languages

Mar 06 2023
girl learning languages at the laptop

Do your children hate languages?

We generally aren’t keen on languages, and that has trickled down into GCSE choices, which no longer include a compulsory foreign language. Linguists are rare at A level and University language courses are closing. Because English is the global language of the moment. Duh? Why should we bother, blessed as we are. Let them do the legwork.

Credit to the Department of Education, they have got much MUCH better at teaching languages. The focus is now on practical communication and fluency over obsessive accuracy, for example. Our textbooks are more visually appealing and full of enriching cultural insights.

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Would you like your child to be fluent in Chinese?

Feb 28 2023
chinese boy running in a school hall at Kensington wade

Kensington Wade is an award-winning, bilingual nursery and prep school in west London for children aged 3-11. It is an exciting and new type of school – the first and only bilingual English-Chinese prep school in Europe which aims to provide pupils with the skills they will need to succeed in an ever-changing world.

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