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How can I boost my child's concentration?

Is your child struggling to concentrate on their schoolwork during this schools shutdown period? This article will give you some insights and tips to help boost your child’s concentration.

What makes a child so keen to do certain school work tasks but not others? Joe Wicks seems to know how to motivate kids!

Whilst your child is at home, they will be getting requests from school to do various tasks associated with their education. Some of those bits of homework your child will want to do, but for some, your child may well struggle to concentrate.

Every child is different and they will have different needs that will need to fulfil in order to keep them motivated. Celebrity fitness coach Joe Wicks aka The Body Coach is a wonderful example of someone who is able to motivate kids to be engaged with fitness as is being demonstrated everyday within thousands of house holds across the UK.

For some children with dyslexia, maintaining focus is a huge challenge. Studying can potentially be exhausting for many reasons such as struggling to read, to write, to process information, experiencing self-doubt and so on.

I recorded the video below to talk around this topic and to share some insights that could be useful to you.



As promised in the video, I have produced an info-graphic that you can print out to remind you of some of the points I made in the video.

Just click on the thumbnail of the info-graphic to download your copy of the info-graphic.

I am keen to produce more content that will be useful to you and so please do comment below if you have any suggestions for what you need and I will look to do what I can to support you as you support your child.

Download this essential resource from St David’s College.

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