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EcoBall Pen Review: Eco Writing Solution for Teens

Sheilagh — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 23:51:06 +0000

When your Year 8 son comes home complaining his teacher “can’t read his writing again,” it’s tempting to think nothing helps. But sometimes the most effective solutions aren’t flashy – they’re reliable, affordable tools that work while your teenager feels good using them. This post is the EcoBall pen review. It will explore whether a […]

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How to write punctuation correctly

Sheilagh — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 11:58:43 +0000

Perfecting Your Punctuation: Commas, Full Stops, and More Of all the writing tasks, the hardest is punctuation and grammar. It’s because there are many options to consider and try in your text. It can be hard to always know which punctuation symbol is the right one to use. To help you find the best option, […]

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OT and Handwriting

Sheilagh — Thu, 09 Nov 2023 13:52:59 +0000

About Occupational Therapy and OT Week Every year in November, the Royal College of Occupational Therapy runs ‘OT week’. This is a way to celebrate and promote the good work of the profession. The 2023 theme is occupation, which aims to spark conversations about this topic. It is a very difficult word to describe because […]

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Drawing doodles to improve writing

Sheilagh — Thu, 31 Aug 2023 11:18:31 +0000

How can drawing doodles help improve handwriting? There are many students who find forming letters tricky and it is not specific to a particular age. Students end up with wobbly lines on the page, letters that are too big, or word spacing that is difficult to identify. All of these problems relate to having reduced […]

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Escape rooms as educational tools

Sheilagh — Sun, 09 Jul 2023 14:45:41 +0000

Escape Rooms Create Epic Learning Opportunities Escape rooms have come from nowhere to fast becoming a must-do activity. Often on a to-do list as part of a family holiday, birthday activities or group outings. The concept is simple. With a physical experience, you’re locked in a themed room with a group of family or friends. […]

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Peppa Pig and Inspiring Handwriting

Sheilagh — Wed, 17 May 2023 19:43:41 +0000

The Power of Peppa Pig – inspiring young writers to start to write letters Have you ever said something to someone, then someone else says it in roughly the same way and it gets done? This is the power that Peppa Pig can bring to future hand writers. Peppa Pig’s ‘Writing Little Letters’ will show […]

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Project: tree planting

Sheilagh — Sun, 23 Apr 2023 18:11:43 +0000

Our tree planting project is just starting For all of us, the need to go “greener” and look after our environment is ever more paramount. The question for us is how? How does a handwriting company try to use less paper? When a core need of handwriting is to write on paper. Why do we […]

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Left-handed writers and maths

Sheilagh — Thu, 02 Feb 2023 12:22:39 +0000

Are there any differences in how left-handed writers write in maths? Left-handed writers comprise 10% of the population. But should they be doing their maths work any differently than a right-handed writer? For left handed writers, this is one of those yes and no type of answers. The key difference is about something called ‘push’ […]

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What is illegible handwriting?

Sheilagh — Wed, 07 Dec 2022 16:16:02 +0000

Everyone strives for legible handwriting. But the question we should be asking is “What is illegible handwriting?” When we look at the word legible it comes from the Latin meaning readable. Simply put legible means clear enough to read. This is what we should be striving for with handwriting. It doesn’t need to have flourishes […]

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Homework Strategies for Parents

Sheilagh — Thu, 03 Nov 2022 11:13:09 +0000

Homework is such a controversial topic. Some schools give it, and some schools don’t. Some schools expect handwritten work. Others use a Chromebook. There are even schools out there that have a ‘no homework policy’. Whatever age your child is, I’m sure a common theme runs through your house. Most children hate the thought of homework. Before […]

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Fixing PDF printing problems

Sheilagh — Mon, 31 May 2021 12:31:55 +0000

Do you have PDF printing problems? Have you had that annoying situation when you see something great. It is a pdf. You are want to print it out. But when you do, there are black bits. These are pdf printing problems and they are easily fixable. This often happens around the images. Not only is […]

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Handwriting after lockdown

Sheilagh — Wed, 24 Mar 2021 21:32:40 +0000

Handwriting after lockdown – We know that lockdown has been hard for us all. Life during and after lockdown was/is hard. In particular, it has had a huge impact on our children. We are only just beginning to understand more about handwriting after lockdown now. Children are taking time to get back into ‘the swing […]

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