Further Reading & Downloads
Brain Breaks: Simple, science-backed ways to help your child reset, regulate, and refocus
When your child struggles to focus, it is often a sign their brain needs a reset, not more pressure. This free guide gives you simple, science-backed brain breaks you can use at home to help your child regulate, recharge, and return to learning with more ease. Each activity is quick, practical, and designed for real family life.
Storytelling: Helping children find their voice
Some children find a blank page daunting. When asked to write, they stall, not because they lack ideas, but because getting those ideas out of their head and onto paper feels overwhelming. Simple techniques that help children organise and arrange their thinking can make a remarkable difference.
AI and Homework: Is AI helping my child learn…or just giving them the answer?
In a world where any question can be answered in seconds, the risk isn’t that children are using AI, it’s that they can get an answer without ever having to think. These six simple prompts will help your child use AI to explore and understand, rather than simply copy and move on.
The Brain and Screen Time: Why Kids Struggle when Screen Time Ends
Screens aren’t just entertaining, they activate powerful brain systems responsible for emotion, reward, and self-control. Understanding what happens inside your child’s brain will help families support calmer transitions.
The Brain and Screen Time: Why do screens spark such big emotions?
Discover the simple brain science behind dopamine, self-regulation, and those tricky post-screen outbursts. Explore how understanding the “emotional vs thinking brain” loop can help families navigate screen time with confidence.
Building Phoneme Awareness: Know What Matters
With an understanding that research in the future may provide even more powerful pathways for reading success, this fact sheet presents guiding principles for instruction informed by what we know from research today….