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Confidence, or lack of it, governs every action we take during our lives. Our thinking, decision-making, relationships with those we meet and attitudes towards the tasks we undertake, are all governed by our confidence. We, the parents and the teachers are best placed to create the conditions for building children’s confidence. This is to support

Find out what to do if you have been directed to the ‘Too Many Logins’ page.

Discover how to use different sections of these fascinating books in some Do You Know? activities. These are great for home learning with no planning required.

arents are the child’s first teachers. Early teaching at home may seem like a daunting prospect but remember, no-one knows your child better than you do. You spend more time with him/her than anyone else does.

The Do You Know? series is a new set of non-fiction EAL (English as an additional language) graded readers based around STEM topics. In this blog post, we will provide some tips and advice for using this new series at home.

Watch a recording of the Ladybird Readers Webinar. The webinar is filled with useful tips and ideas to help you enjoy using Ladybird Readers at home.

Here are some fun and educational activity ideas you can use at home to keep children occupied. All of these activities are based around The Ladybird Readers range.

Children can learn to read using the ‘Scrapbook method’. It involves gathering together anything important to a young child, in a homemade book, and writing clearly related words in lower case script alongside each entry. Many more early word games and activities can follow on from this.

Here are some resources which we hope that teachers, parents and students will find useful during school closures.  

Suggestions of possible questions/discussion topics and post reading activities that can be used to develop children’s emotional intelligence, creativity and critical thinking skills for some of the most popular fairy tales that we all know and love.