What is a number?
What is a number?

Take the number 5. What actually does it mean? Many of you will be racking your brain to try to answer this. Numbers are abstract. Written numbers are numerals that represent the numbers. A strange thing to get your head around, especially as a Kindergarten child! To allow children to begin to understand the concept of numbers, it is obvious…

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Naplan tutoring – tips for supporting your child
Naplan tutoring – tips for supporting your child

The National Assessment Plan – Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) is a national assessment that takes place annually in May for Year 3, Year 5, Year 7 and Year 9 children. NAPLAN assesses four key areas: reading, writing, language conventions and numeracy. The assessment compares children on a national level and also compares children’s individual progress between assessments. NAPLAN tests are one…

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What is ‘Quality First’ teaching from our private tutors at Discover Learning?

Here at Discover Learning we are confident that we are unique in our delivery of ‘Quality First’ education. As our private tutors are UK trained teachers, we pride ourselves in our ability to provide high quality education for your child. So what is ‘Quality First’ tutoring? At Discover Learning, implementing ‘Quality First’ school tutoring means designing highly focused private tutor…

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