Free resources for parents
Plain-English guides for the questions that come up most often. All free: click any title to open the PDF. Three of the longer guides ask for your email first.
For Babies and Pre-School parents
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For primary parents
Eleven-plus — a parent’s guide
Reluctant readers — what actually works
Year 6 SATs — a parent’s guide
The full courses are here: Year Ready. For the eleven-plus: ten weekly hours of tutoring
Topic explainers for primary parents
One-page guides that explain primary curriculum topics in plain English. Helpful when your child comes home with a worksheet and asks you what something means.
Bus-stop method — division demystified
Helping with mental arithmetic
Homophones — same sound, different meaning
Mastery vs spiral — how primary maths is taught
Phonics and blending — how young readers crack the code
Reading with your child (the short version)
The difference between colons and semicolons
What are equivalent fractions?
What are Similes and Metaphors?
What is an expanded noun phrase?
What to do if your child hates maths
What are factors and multiples?
What are prefixes and suffixes?
What are synonyms and antonyms?
The full course is here: Year Ready
Longer guides
What good nursery practice looks like
Funding explained
UK childcare funding 2026 — a plain-English guide
The full nursery course is here: The Knowing Practitioner
MUSIC
The difference between beat and rhythm
What are major and minor scales?
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Secondary and Specialist Explainers
Written for older students and for parents helping with homework that they last saw twenty years ago
MATHS
SCIENCE
What are elements, compounds and mixtures?
How to Balance Chemical Equations
The difference between weight and mass
The difference between current and voltage
The difference between serial and parallel circuits
The difference between respiration and breathing
Secondary English
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