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Our message to you is: Don’t stop! If your child is sitting the 11+ exam this autumn, they need your help now! July is the earliest that year 5 children will return to school, with a chance they…

This week, primary schools up and down the country received this year’s SATs results and would have been spending a lot of time digesting the figures to see where they stand nationally. To coincide …

Long-term lifestyle changes are better than dieting, and this long-term approach is also the case for  children revising for exams. Let’s start this blog off by saying happy new year! January is…

You only need to Google ‘revision tips’ in order to discover a plethora of advice on how to tackle revision and find strategies to help optimise what has been taught during lessons. Revision…

As children develop and improve their cognitive abilities, they are expected to become less reliant on supervised learning and develop self-learning skills. Although there are some self-learning…

The AE Publications (AEP) range of books is constantly evolving to meet the needs of parents and tutors. We aim to provide you with an educational toolkit which can be used in the home to help enable …

I am pleased to hear the Department for Education has announced that it will be scrapping its plan to introduce baseline testing of four- and five-year-old schoolchildren. Assessing children’s…

In primary school, when a child is first developing an understanding of mathematics, I believe a structured emphasis on learning the foundational skills is key. Without a thorough understanding of…

In previous blog posts I have spoken about the CEM claim that their exams are difficult to prepare for and ‘tutor proof’. I have written a lot about this claim – disputing it as…