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    A REaLLY? helpful technique
    Deep Thinker
    • Mar 2
    • 4 min

    A REaLLY? helpful technique

    Aaaaaarrrrrrgh! I’ve done it again. A brilliant essay, full of salient points, fantastic quotes and a stunning conclusion. Then I reread...
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    Creative QWERTY® and a Competition
    Deep Thinker
    • May 12, 2020
    • 5 min

    Creative QWERTY® and a Competition

    How to use QWERTY® creatively, including using it for inspiring an ice cream sundae competition and how it was judged.
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    You gotta fill a form or two-oo...
    Deep Thinker
    • Mar 6, 2020
    • 8 min

    You gotta fill a form or two-oo...

    To help people structure their thinking when doing QWERTY®,  we've devised some paper forms.  They act like scaffolding while you think,...
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    Quirky QWERTY®
    Deep Thinker
    • Nov 6, 2019
    • 3 min

    Quirky QWERTY®

    Last week we took QWERTY® to the Big Family Weekend organised by Potential Plus UK in Peterborough.
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    Learning from Leonardo
    Deep Thinker
    • Aug 9, 2019
    • 4 min

    Learning from Leonardo

    If you want to talk about Observation, then Leonardo da Vinci is a pretty good place to start.
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    A Brush with Observation
    Anti Mag
    • Aug 2, 2019
    • 4 min

    A Brush with Observation

    How often have you spotted something that has been dropped? Without realising it, you're practising the 'Awareness' element of Observation.
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    Word Walks
    Family Man
    • Aug 2, 2019
    • 6 min

    Word Walks

    A favourite game of ours has always been 'The Minister's Cat' where you have to describe the cat in a variety of ways, working your way...
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    Passports and Portals
    Family Man
    • Aug 1, 2019
    • 6 min

    Passports and Portals

    Combining Observation activities with other skills such as Memory, Thinking or simply letting loose your creative imagination.
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    Give it a WhiRL!
    Deep Thinker
    • Jul 2, 2019
    • 6 min

    Give it a WhiRL!

    Whatever we're thinking or planning, we can always up our game a little by adding other elements, looking at things from a different...
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    Choose and Muse
    Family Man
    • May 22, 2019
    • 5 min

    Choose and Muse

    We've written before about ways to use your Observation skills as a stepping stone to creativity and visualisation. You'll find a...
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    Making a Mark
    Anti Mag
    • May 22, 2019
    • 8 min

    Making a Mark

    Whether you've had a look at QWERTY® and want to see how it could work in practice, or your child has just been set a homework project...
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    Wonder Walks
    Family Man
    • May 21, 2019
    • 6 min

    Wonder Walks

    This blog is about a series of easy, fun activities you can do to hone Observation skills. Not only do they get you to make the most of...
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    X Marks the Spot
    Deep Thinker
    • May 7, 2019
    • 5 min

    X Marks the Spot

    Search patterns help us find things. Choosing your pattern wisely will speed up the searching process and we discussed our basic six...
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    Search Patterns
    Deep Thinker
    • May 7, 2019
    • 8 min

    Search Patterns

    Our daughter has lost her last pair of socks. They are somewhere on her bedroom floor. Can she see them? No. Barbie dolls, cuddly toys...
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    Rainbow Walk
    Family Man
    • May 2, 2019
    • 8 min

    Rainbow Walk

    You want to develop your children's observation skills. What do you do? The Got-A-Head®? game will introduce them to new techniques and...
    56 views1 comment
    Suitcase in the Woods
    Family Man
    • May 2, 2019
    • 5 min

    Suitcase in the Woods

    Exercise is good! We're always being told that we should get outside, get more exercise, fresh air etc. It's not always a child's idea...
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    Reading for Information
    Deep Thinker
    • May 1, 2019
    • 6 min

    Reading for Information

    As we said in Reading Effectively, our aim is to help 8-to-14-year-olds to read as efficiently as they can so their school work is done...
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    Reading Effectively
    Deep Thinker
    • May 1, 2019
    • 5 min

    Reading Effectively

    Last summer, we had the great pleasure of setting up a table under a gazebo in our back garden and sat around it teaching techniques in...
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    Keep On Track
    Deep Thinker
    • Apr 9, 2019
    • 3 min

    Keep On Track

    "Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude." Zig Ziglar This is a very simple Forget-Me-Not, but a vital one. It is...
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    Six Honest Men
    Deep Thinker
    • Apr 8, 2019
    • 4 min

    Six Honest Men

    "I have six honest serving men They taught me all I knew Their names are What, and Where and When; and Why and How and Who." Rudyard...
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