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Make retrieval routine: timely practice's primary function
Deal with distractions: timely practice time allows each learner a quiet space and time each lesson to fully concentrate on their learning.
Consolidate the concepts: our more tightly spiralled curriculum makes learning easier, most topics are consolidated and added to several a number of times a year and this also minimises has the benefit of minimising the negative effects of absence from school.
Find time for feedback: timely practice’s secondary function
Champion the child: there is nothing more empowering than success, and success is so far easier to achieve with timely practice. A great activity for learners to do, perhaps termly, is to look back at their timely practice assignments a term/year ago. Point out to learners, that it isn’t that a term/year ago the “work I had was so easy” but that they have made “great progress” in the past term/year.
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