Homework articles

What are the very best ways to support your child's learning and help them reach their full potential? In an extract from their handbook, A Parent’s Guide to The Science of Learning, Edward Watson and Bradley Busch suggest practical ways to help your child improve how they think, feel and behave in school, all backed by psychological research.

Struggling to keep your child on track with their home learning? Try these techniques for giving their motivation a boost.

As children’s learning becomes increasingly internet-based, we ask the experts for their advice on primary school online learning.

Whether you're juggling your job and your child's learning during ongoing school disruptions or have chosen to home educate alongside working, read our advice and parents’ tips for combining homeworking and looking after your child.

Everybody learns differently, and many children struggle with traditional approaches to studying. Barbara Oakley and Terrence Sejnowski, authors of Learning How to Learn: A Guide for Kids and Teens, shine a light on creative (but neuroscience-backed) methods to help your child learn and think about learning differently.

Fed up of fighting about homework? We asked the real experts – experienced teachers – how they help their own children with their home learning.

Learning logs are growing in popularity in primary schools, giving children more control over their learning. We take a look at what's involved.

We all want our kids to do well at school, but what if they’re setting themselves unrealistic standards? We take a look at the problem of perfectionism.

Does your child dread their maths lessons and end up in tears over homework? We take a look at what’s going wrong, and how you can help.

Struggling to get your KS2 child to focus on their homework? We reveal the strategies that could take the stress out of homework time.

Learning how to study, complete homework projects and revise is essential as your child moves towards the end of primary school. We asked the experts for their advice on getting into good work habits. By Lucy Dimbylow

Helping your child engage with their reading matter and improve their literacy skills, book reports are a homework staple. So what’s involved, and how can you make them easier for your child? Lucy Dimbylow explains.

Does your pre-schooler play havoc during his older sibling’s homework time? Is getting the reading, writing and spelling done a military operation every evening? Lucy Dimbylow asked experts and mums for their coping strategies.

Help your children improve their spelling skills with games and activities that build word-savviness in fun and interesting ways.

Maths is not always a popular subject with children. But with these handy tips and downloadable worksheets, it can become a lot more fun.

The British Dyslexia Association shares tips to help make doing homework a calm and productive process for your dyslexic child.

Do battles over homework leave you – and your children – seething? Moira Holden looks at ways to make homework time run more smoothly.

Helping your child with homework may bring you out in a cold sweat, but parent coach Sue Atkins has some indispensable tips for making homework a positive experience for all of you.

Homework is the bane of many parents’ lives. Whether it’s getting your child to sit down and get on with it or knowing how to help them, Camilla Chafer finds out how to get good homework habits in place.