Starting a new school year can be an emotional struggle for many students. However, getting your child into the right frame of mind isn’t an impossible task! Here are five unique strategies that you can use to help your child be mentally and emotionally prepared for the start of the school year.
For many kids, socialising can be one of the hardest things to do. Some just can’t get social cues, while others may get emotional easily. One solution to help them develop good social skills? Consider games, in all their myriad forms (video and tabletop).
The Normal (Technical) stream is rarely, if ever, welcomed by parents with open arms. But, what if I told you that students who go through the N(T) route can potentially do better than their peers from other streams, if we just use a different lens to look at it?
Studying for an examination is rough. It can be overwhelmingly stressful for the student, and can create unnecessary angst and anxiety. In this article, I discuss SEVEN SECRET INGREDIENTS to help make the studying process smoother and more effective. What are they? Read on to find out.
We like to think that repetition naturally leads to better performance in school. After all, practice makes perfect. By making our kids write and write again, by forcing them to memorise set after set of vocabulary, their writing skills should improve, right? Well, the answer to that is yes… and no at the same time.
There are many ways to make the learning process enjoyable, not least of which is the use of games to teach concepts. How can tabletop games like board games and role-playing games help your child to learn better? Read on to find out!
The KOBOLD Guide to Worldbuilding is a guidebook with plenty of advice from established game designers and authors, to help budding designers create new worlds. How useful is it as a resource book, and is it inspiring enough to work as an educational resource? Let’s find out!
Many parents believe that learning mathematics as a subject is best done through practising examination questions repeatedly. Surely practice makes perfect, right?
(The answer is, unfortunately, no.)
Swords & Stationery’s unique Skill Constellations, inspired by games such as Path of Exile, Grim Dawn and Diablo 2, aptly showcase how our concepts and frameworks link to one another.
I frequently get asked whether or not Swords & Stationery is a tuition service. It… kind of is, and isn’t. Actually, to be specific, it’s “educational therapy”, or “specialist tuition”. But exactly what is it that I do that makes S&S different from other educational services out there?