Ande Ford
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first heard May 2026
last heard 24 May
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That's fantastic.
That's going to help them with this.
And these are the areas you need to focus on.
And now, boom, here's all the sorts of things you can be doing
I'm just going to pull this here because we actually had to think about this question because we'd say, oh, my gosh, we've got about 50 top tips, so we had to try and narrow it down.
My number one would probably be getting kids out there moving more.
You know, you think about it, at five and a half, the curriculum says, new curriculum says that children will be able to sit upright in a chair highest.
form of balance is this, feet positioned nicely, they'll be able to hold their pencil in a correct grip, and they'll be able to, with the right pressure, so proprioception, and they'll be able to write letters, so they've got to have visual memory, auditory memory, all of these things happening, and so it's
key.
We don't want them being labelled as behind by our very advanced curriculum.
We want to make sure that we develop those things and we can do that through movement and speaking and listening and fun games and activities to develop those, but get them out moving as much as possible.
Okay.
Okay, my second one would be be mindful as a parent.
Be really mindful.
So when you're present with your child, be present.
And it's better to have five minutes really present than 30 minutes, you know, hardly even listening or doing those things.
So being mindful that if you've had a really...
rubbish day at work or you're really stressed about the things that you've still got to do, it's actually going, okay, yeah, I might be tempted to just, because it's been, I just need to sit down and have a glass of wine.
Actually, I'm going to take this time to sit down for 10 minutes and read with my child or do some things.
I'm going to mindfully leave that there.
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