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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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...
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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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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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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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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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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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