How to use QWERTY® creatively, including using it for inspiring an ice cream sundae competition and how it was judged.

To help people structure their thinking when doing QWERTY®,  we've devised some paper forms.  They act like scaffolding while you think, giving support and s...

Last week we took QWERTY® to the Big Family Weekend organised by Potential Plus UK in Peterborough.

If you want to talk about Observation, then Leonardo da Vinci is a pretty good place to start.

How often have you spotted something that has been dropped? Without realising it, you're practising the 'Awareness' element of Observation.

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 through the alphabet....

Combining Observation activities with other skills such as Memory, Thinking or simply letting loose your creative imagination.

Whatever we're thinking or planning, we can always up our game a little by adding other elements, looking at things from a different direction (using our For...

We've written before about ways to use your Observation skills as a stepping stone to creativity and visualisation. You'll find a print-and-go sheet with so...

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 and you're wondering w...

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 your surroundings, b...

Search patterns help us find things. Choosing your pattern wisely will speed up the searching process and we discussed our basic six search patterns in a se...

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 and Lego have turned h...

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 have plenty of exerc...

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 of fun, though, so t...

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 as effectively as pos...

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 our four key areas to...

"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 so important to alwa...

"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 Kipling I seem to rememb...

In Homework Blues, we gave you an overview of our homework problems (note: we say 'our' quite deliberately - although it was our daughter's homework, the pro...