Hot Tips for Parents

- Remember your child's education is a partnership. Meet with teachers and see how they believe you can help.

- Approach a subject from lots of different angles. Software, games, activities, books, flash cards, practical applications all help.

- Look through a practice paper together and talk through the answers, try drawing or acting out answers of difficult concepts such as fractions.

- Explain that the number of marks gives your child an idea of how much time to spend on each question.

- Make sure your child is aware that getting stuck is not a problem, move on and if they have time come back to the hard ones at the end.

- Encourage your child to believe in themselves, "you can do it!"

- Remind your child that the tests are important, but that the are not the only way they are to be measured.

- It is easier said than done, BUT do not put your child under too much pressure. Have fun, they will find things easier to remember if they remember the good times they had learning.