By KATIE KNAPMAN – JUMPING YAK. London in lockdown has been a very different place over the last few months. As a parent of two school aged children, I have had the chance to see…
Author: Lea S Irmer, B.A., M.A. As a tutor, primarily for secondary students, the reaction being Montessori trained for secondary schools causes either surprise, enthusiasm or sceptical looks from parents. Sometimes it happens because parents…
How to Navigate the 11+ and Choosing the Right Senior School | Thursday 4th June, 2020 at 7:00pm with Simon Northcote-Green, Director of Consulting at Holland Park Education featuring Katie Ross of Jumping Yak, author…
On Friday, 15th May, Minister for Children MP Vicky Ford hosted a webchat via Mumsnet to address parents’ questions regarding the plans for continuing to cope with the coronavirus crisis. Holland Park Education attended this…
We’re back with more tips from Rhys E J Danino who offers top tips on time management during the lockdown period.. I mentioned on a preious Holland Park blog post that university study is a…
Holland Park Linguistics tutor Rhys E. J. Danino advises on how to make the most of lockdown for university applications. Lockdown is an unusual time to study. The formality of a physical classroom has for…
Human beings hate The Unknown. In technical terms, psychologists describe the human race as being locked in what we describe as ‘an existential crisis of not knowingness’. Or put more simply, people have a burning…
At Holland Park Education, our goal is to make sure we do what is best for the student. Although we champion a British education, increasingly, students at schools across the UK are starting to look…
By Simon Gleave There are different reasons why we read: the first is to make sense of the world, perhaps the second is to make sense of ourselves in the world. I have been invited…
Home schooling? Choose Character over Curriculum Written by guest blogger Louise Treherne Is this the moment we realise the true importance of Character Education? Louise Treherne from trusted partner Role Models looks at how to…
