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Monthly Archive for: "Feb, 2019"
 Top 10 Games for School Readiness-Blog
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In 0 – 2 years, 2 – 4 years, 4 – 6 years, Analysis & synthesis, Auditory perception, Bilateral integration, Classifying and matching, Educational games, Eye-hand co-ordination, Fine motor control, Gross motor control, Laterality & directionality, Learn & play, Memory, Number Games, Number games, Ordering & seriation, Perceptual skills, Problem solving, School Readiness, Spatial planning, Toy & game reviews, Toy Talk, Types of Toys, Visual perception, Word Games
Posted 23 Feb 2019

Top 10 Games for School Readiness-Blog

Will Your Child Be Ready For Grade R Or Grade 1 in 2020? School readiness is a journey that takes six years and doesn’t happen overnight. Pre-schoolers are in training for big school! School [...]

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 Bricolage and the reinvention of education
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In Blog, Early learning, Education & school, Nikki Bush, Teaching
Posted 16 Feb 2019

Bricolage and the reinvention of education

Sometimes you come across a word you have never heard before. Today, ‘bricolage’, is that word for me, although the concept is stands for is not new to me at all. Bricolage can be [...]

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 Does Google facilitate curiosity or shut it down?
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In Blog, creativity, Early learning, Future-proof your child, innovation, Nikki Bush, X-factors for success
Posted 16 Feb 2019

Does Google facilitate curiosity or shut it down?

Finding facts and information has been made very easy by Google. Adults and children alike know that if you need to know anything you just Google it. In fact, Google has become a verb that is [...]

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 Intellectual breadth is important – we need T-thinkers
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In Blog, Future-proof your child, innovation, Nikki Bush, X-factors for success
Posted 15 Feb 2019

Intellectual breadth is important – we need T-thinkers

We need more young people who are T-thinkers with a broad, cross-disciplinary education. Let’s not push kids to specialise too early, before they even know who they are, let alone what they [...]

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 Curiosity is the itch to explore and to know stuff
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In Blog, Early learning, Future-proof your child, innovation, Nikki Bush, X-factors for success
Posted 15 Feb 2019

Curiosity is the itch to explore and to know stuff

Babies are born explorers of their environment whether they are putting dirt in their mouths, checking out what’s behind the couch when they are crawling, or pointing to things before they [...]

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 Being able to ask questions is at the heart of curiosity
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In Blog, Education & school, Future-proof your child, Nikki Bush, World of work, X-factors for success
Posted 15 Feb 2019

Being able to ask questions is at the heart of curiosity

While we share three drives with other primates – the need for food, shelter and sex, there is one key differentiator and that is a human being’s ability to wonder why and ask [...]

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 Winning mindsets are not a birthright, they are optional
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In Blog, Early learning, Future-proof your child, World of work
Posted 1 Feb 2019

Winning mindsets are not a birthright, they are optional

Talent alone is not what makes great minds, first class athletes or top performers in any discipline. Highly successful people have the ability to take the potential of their basic qualities and [...]

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