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Self-harm, or self-injury, describes a wide range of things people deliberately do to themselves that appear to cause some kind of physical hurt. It can still be very hard for parents and carers to know about - or witness - self-harming behaviour in their children.

Cutting the arms or the back of the legs is the most common form of self-harm, but it can take many forms, including burning, biting, hitting oneself, banging head onto walls, pulling out hair (trichotilliomania), inserting objects into the body or taking overdoses.

Some argue that risky behaviours such as smoking, drinking, taking drugs and having unprotected sex are also a form of self-harming.
Reasons for self-harm
A person may self-harm to help them cope with negative feelings and difficult experiences, to feel more in control, or to punish themselves. It can be a way of relieving overwhelming feelings that build up inside, to:

reduce tension

manage extreme emotional upset

provide a feeling of physical pain to distract from emotional pain

express emotions such as hurt, anger or frustration

regain control over feelings or problems

punish themselves or others

The feelings or experiences that might be connected to self-harm include anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, poor body image, gender identity, sexuality, abuse, school problems, bullying, social media pressure, family or friendship troubles and bereavement.

Over time, self-harming can become a habit that is hard to stop.
Is my child self-harming?
As a parent, you might suspect that your child is self-harming. If you are worried, keep an eye open for the following signs:

unexplained cuts, burns, bite-marks, bruises or bald patches

keeping themselves covered; avoiding swimming or changing clothes around others

bloody tissues in waste bins

being withdrawn or isolated from friends and family

low mood, lack of interest in life, depression or outbursts of anger

blaming themselves for problems or expressing feelings of failure, uselessness, or hopelessness

It can be difficult to know what to do or how to react if you find out your child is self-harming. Here are some things that can really help:

1. Avoid asking your child lots of questions all at once.

2. Keep an eye on your child but avoid 'policing' them because this can increase their risk of self-harming.

3. Consider whether your child is self-harming in areas that can't be seen.

4. Remember the self-harm is a coping mechanism. It is a symptom of an underlying problem.

5. Keep open communication between you and your child and remember they may feel ashamed of their self-harm and find it very difficult to talk about. Here are some ways you could start the conversation.

6. Talk to your child but try not to get into a hostile confrontation.

7. Keep firm boundaries and don't be afraid of disciplining your child. It is helpful to keep a sense of normality and this will help your child feel secure and emotionally stable.

8. If you feel confident, you can ask the whether removing whatever they are using to self-harm is likely to cause them use something less sanitary to self-harm with, or whether it reduces temptation. This can be a difficult question to ask and if you are not confident to ask this seek professional advice.

9. Seek professional help. Your child may need a risk assessment from a qualified mental health professional. Talk to your GP and explore whether your child can be referred to your local Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS).

10. Discovering and responding to self-harm can be a traumatic experience - it's crucial that you seek support for yourself. It's natural to feel guilt, shame, anger, sadness, frustration and despair - but it's not your fault.

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What is Remote Learning? In short, Remote Learning occurs when teachers and students move a normally in-person class to a temporary online space. Remote Learning is a kind of eLearning (or 'online learning') but isn't 'online learning' because it is not learning that is designed for purely digital spaces (whereas eLearning is). So what kind of remote learning tips for parents can help? In What Parents Can Do To Help Support Reading At Home, I talked about the ways families can model and support literacy in the home. Below, I offer a continuum of remote learning tips for parents and families (perhaps suddenly) working with children at home.

Three Quick Prefaces

1. These are not meant to be viral tips that blow your mind but rather some basic advice to save your sanity and help your child have their best chance for success learning at home.

2. I've arranged it from 'Basic Remote Learning Tips' to 'Advanced Remote Learning Tips.'

The idea of the first set of remote learning tips is to provide bare minimum guidance for parents who are trying to wrap their heads around this shift to online learning in K-12 public education-more or less a, 'If nothing else, make sure that you...' approach. If you can imagine car maintenance tips, while some could be very advanced (e.g., make sure the car's alignment suits the way the car is used on a daily basis, make sure engine management software is updated to the latest version, etc.) an 'if nothing else' approach to such maintenance might be, "Make sure the car doesn't run out of gas' and 'Make sure the engine has oil.'

3. As I alluded to in the introduction, a final underlying assumption here is that a curriculum is already set (whether it's a public education curriculum from your local school district or an off-the-shelf homeschool curriculum). While some of these tips are universal and apply to any learning-at-home scenario, overall this list wasn't created for parents helping their children learn to learn or learn what to learn, nor would this post be much help if you're trying to create your own customized curriculum for your child. Again-these tips are mainly to help parents who are helping their children complete online learning assignments at home.

With that in mind, on to the tips.
22 Remote Learning Tips For Parents
Bare Minimum: These are intended to be a set of basic tips that are true for most remote learning situations.
1. Set (and keep) a schedule
The closer this is to a 'school schedule,' the easier it will likely be on everyone. You obviously can (and probably should) revise whatever you come up with at first to fit your circumstance at home (your work schedule, sleeping schedules, etc.). But once you've got something that works, stick to it. And this almost certainly means to use some sort of timer to at least clarify how much time is being spent on what.
2. Make sure they have any materials necessary to complete all assignments
Whether its pencil and paper, a stable WiFi connection, log-in information for all accounts, a PDF reader, or note-taking apps or reading strategies-whatever they need to get the work done.
3. Provide an environment conducive to learning
This isn't always easy. If they're too isolated, it's difficult to check in with them. If they're at the kitchen table, depending on the child or their environment, they may be too distracted. This is even more challenging when everyone is home and the house is full.

Background noise can help, as can music. I also use this app myself to keep me from needlessly scrolling social media or checking for messages too frequently.
4. Create a daily plan
Creating a daily plan isn't just a matter of scheduling. A daily plan looks at the schedule and then identifies to-do items for that day and combines the two for a specific plan for that specific day.
5. Don't teach-help them understand
Helping students understand is one of the more obvious remote learning tips for parents. This could be the topic for an entire book because how this happens is complicated and varies greatly from student to student and grade level to grade level and content area to content area.

Imagine the parent of a second-grade student helping them complete an essay on their favorite cookie versus the parent of a high school senior helping them with a Calculus problem or an analysis of Shakespearean versus Petrarchan meter. The former is a matter of sitting with your child, while the latter is going to likely require that you learn alongside your child-or even learn it first yourself and then review it with them after.

The bottom line is that helping your child understand the content is definitely part of the 'bare minimum' range of tips.
6. Make sure all work is completed
And any work that remains incomplete is incomplete for a good reason and has a time-bound, actionable next-step (e.g., email the teacher asking for clarification on step 3 of the activity so that you can turn it in tomorrow by noon).
7. Help them check messages and communicate with school
Check for messages daily from teachers and other students and make sure to reply to any messages that require one.
8. Keep in mind that it's about the child, not the work
This can be difficult for some parents to keep in mind when there is so much pressure (on everyone) to complete the work. And further, this is obviously a parenting philosophy-for some families, it very well may be a matter of discipline to do what you're told and 'do well in school.' If that's true, this tip may not be useful.

But if you believe that assignments should serve the child rather than the child serve the assignments-or that this is at least partly true-then don't over-emphasize 'getting everything done' over the well-being (not to mention creative genius and curiosity and intrinsic motivation) of your child.
9. Learn to identify the barriers
This is something teachers have to learn early on in their careers-how to pinpoint exactly what's happening or going wrong (not unlike an automotive mechanic or NASA engineers or computer coder. Diagnostic teaching is one approach that can help here but the big idea is to identify precisely why your child might be struggling: Is it focus? Motivation? Too much or too little structure? Do they need a hug or finger-wagging or for you to sit with them?

And if it's a knowledge deficit, exactly what do they not understand? When students say, 'I don't get it,' the first step is to identify exactly what 'it' is-and this isn't always easy. Most students don't know what they don't know. That's why you (and an internet full of resources) are there to help them making this an especially powerful remote learning tip for parents.
10. Use school resources
Contact your child's school, as well as the local school district and state education resources for support. This is especially critical if your child has an IEP or 504 plan and requires additional support and services at school.
Intermediate Remote Learning Tips For Parents
Going the extra mile: Slightly more intermediate tips for parents with the time and resources to dedicate
11. Personalize the learning
You can almost always personalize your child's learning space (sound, light, room, equipment, etc.) and you can likely adjust their schedule. You may even have some control over the curriculum (what they are learning). Use your child's strengths and gifts and build backward from them as much as possible.
12. Encourage a growth mindset
This isn't about what to learn or how to learn but rather how to think about what they're learning. For a somewhat-related post, you can see 'Alternatives To Asking Your Child What They Learned In School Today.'
13. Use the right resources
Here are some homeschooling resources that can help, for starters. The idea here is to know where to go for what to save time when you-or your child-need something.
14. Mix in Genius Learning
You can read more about Genius Hour here. The goal is to help empower your child to see learning as something they have control of and that curiosity can lead them anywhere.
15. Organize their learning environment
Or help them organize their learning environments (both physical and digital).

How this happens depends (as with everything else on this list) on your circumstance: Are you using a Learning Management System (LMS)? Are classes meeting live? Daily or weekly? Does your child love learning or has school been a struggle for them? Is there a fixed curriculum? Any flexibility in that fixed curriculum? Are assignments graded? And so on.

Imagine a high school student sitting at a desktop computer in their bedroom logged on to their local school's LMS. They have their iPad open and Microsoft OneNote open to take notes. Their phone is playing a background noise to help them focus while their physical textbook is open beside the keyboard. They also have their web browser open with multiple tabs open for search, communication, and related learning resources as well as a digital or physical calendar with upcoming due dates for important assignments. And lastly, they have a to-do list and learning plan for that day to guide them.

That's one example of a 'learning environment.'
16. Encourage self-direction
This could've gone in the 'basic' sections complicated but at its most basic, the more they own their learning-and ideally have voice and choice in their work-the easier and more fulfilling everything will be for everyone.
17. Honor the complexity of learning
Think differently about 'helping' your child 'with their school work.' Realize that your child needs a wide range of 'support': academic, collaborative, psychological, technological, disciplinary, etc.
18. Help them find their own motivation
I tried to word this carefully because children range so drastically in not only their levels of motivation and where that motivation comes from. Further, the dynamic of parent-to-child is necessarily different from the parents-as-teacher-to-child.

However, motivating a child is one area where parents are (ideally) better than any teacher could be. The idea here is to help them 'want to' learn without punishing them psychologically or making all motivation external and independent from the actual value of the knowledge being gleaned.
Advanced Remote Learning Tips For Parents
Obviously, these would only apple for some remote learning situations but if you're really ambitious, you could consider trying to do the following:
19. Understand how the brain works and how learning happens
Learning theories and neuroscience basics are two good places to start. is also an important concept.
20. Gamify the learning
Offer points, levels, challenges, visible markers of progress, etc. You can read more about the definition of gamification here and about how gamification uncovers the nuance of learning.
21. Help your child build a learning network
Connect them with their peers-ideally peers with similar goals and approaches to 'life' to their own (e.g., connecting your child who wants to study medicine in college with other students and groups with students who have similar ambitions.)
22. Help them understand the value of specific knowledge and changing knowledge demands
Further, emphasize critical thinking (learning how to think) and learning literacy (learning how to learn) over content knowledge (academic knowledge). This is probably more of a homeschooling tips than a remote learning tip but ideally it would happen in any formal learning scenario.

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Excellent advice from Temple Grandin, PhD and Debra Moore, PhD, on managing your family during quarantine and how to best prepare for childcare in the event a parent suddenly becomes ill.

1. Routines: maintain the old, create the new

This is the time to maintain usual routines as much as possible, supplemented by new ones created, so your child's day has structure. Even though usual schedules have been disrupted, there are other daily rituals you can stick to.

Get yourself and your children up at regular times each morning, even though they are not at school, and you may not be at work. Get out of PJs and into regular clothes right after breakfast. Take a shower. Keep up your hygiene routines.

Consider playing music to help start the morning. If you have Alexa, ask her to play "Good Morning." You should get a fun, child-friendly, call-and-response song (try it yourself first to be sure you get the right song).

Do schoolwork in the morning when your child is fresh. Give breaks, including breaks for alone time. Have lunch together at regular times each day. Afternoons can be times for your child to read, draw, explore the internet (suggestions provided below), or do small projects with you or siblings.

If your child usually goes to a workshop or other day program, try to incorporate some of his/her usual activities at that site into each day. For example, if your child was learning to fold laundry there, that can be done at home too.

2. Minimize surprises

This is a time of great uncertainty. Do not add to it by throwing surprises at your kids. Surprises scare. They are hard for kids on the spectrum under any circumstances, but they're especially tough when stress levels are already high. For example, if you have to leave the house, give everyone advance notice. If you are getting more deliveries than usual, let the kids know when you're expecting them.

3. Offer simple explanations

Tailor explanations to the needs of your child. Don't let your anxiety drive how much you share. If a child doesn't seem anxious, you don't have to explain about the virus. If he/she has questions, answer them honestly, directly, and without elaboration. You can ask your child if he/she has other questions instead of assuming more information is needed. Keep your explanations appropriate to the child's age and ability to comprehend.

4. Practice good self-care

Your child will pick up on your mood and stress level. Monitor both and take steps to stay focused, positive, and productive. The most basic stress reducer is taking several deep belly breaths at regular intervals during the day. You can set your phone alarm to remind you to do this every hour. Regular stretches are also helpful. You can take free yoga classes online.

Try to eat healthy without too many carbs and sugars, and don't let yourself develop new patterns of alcohol use.

5. Plan each day and use a simple schedule

Replace disrupted routines with new ones. Write out a simple schedule for everyone to see and put it in a highly trafficked area of the house. Include getting up, having breakfast, morning activities and breaks, lunch, afternoon activities and breaks, dinner, evening activities, downtime, and bedtime. Gear it to your child's age-the younger, the simpler.

Consider specifying TV, movie, and online time. If your child is into video games, he/she may want to spend all day playing them. If he/she wants to be online, there are lots of other options. Zoom chats are fine. Online schoolwork or anything where your child is learning is not "screen time." See the end of this post for a list of options and links to websites with fun activities.

Try to get your kids outside for at least part of the day. They can still take walks or ride their bikes. Take them on a "search mission." Write down things you think they will see during your walk and have them check them off. If you're in a city, maybe you write down "store, garbage can, stoplight," things like that. If you live in the country, take a walk in the woods and try to find things like "bird, insect, bush, rock."

Dogs think they've died and gone to heaven during this time! Let your kid join you in walking the dog. Consider teaching other pet care tasks now, like grooming and feeding.

Evenings are times for family dinners and shared clean up. You can designate one evening a week for TV or movie night. Each family member gets to select the movie (or maybe two episodes of a TV series) for everyone to watch. Parents will have to endure some Disney movies and make choices appropriate for kids to watch. When your kids get to choose, they practice empathy and turn-taking by figuring out what other family members might enjoy too.

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6. Reach out to others to keep your kids connected

Your family still needs to communicate with others, just from a distance. You can call relatives and friends, or use any of the online forums for sharing audio or video connections. FaceTime, Skype, and Zoom are the most common platforms people are using. If your kid is into computers, let him/her learn how to use these apps, and then let him/her teach you. Your kids can visit with their friends or relatives, and even play games over Zoom or the other platforms.

If you have neighbors, you can still talk to them from a distance of seven feet or more. You can even have lunch "together" if each family brings their own food and drink, and you sit far enough apart, preferably outside, or in a room where there is good ventilation.

7. Beware of sensory assaults

If you are using hand sanitizer, Lysol, bleach, or other cleaning products more than usual, you could be creating discomfort for your child. Keep rooms aired out as much as possible. Use masking scents if they help. Some kids, for example, love the smell of a little vanilla on a cotton ball. They can keep these in their pockets to sniff as needed. It has a calming effect on many children.

You can also teach children about spices and flavors by doing "sniff experiments" to determine favorites. Just keep the sniffs small, not peppery, and not too close. Some kids love this exercise. If your kid is a compulsive sniffer, this might help channel the obsession into a productive interest in food or cooking, or it could reinforce inappropriate, generalized sniffing. You know your child, so use your judgment.

The thing that helps kids the most is to have some control over sensory input. For example, let them take the cap off the hand sanitizer and put it back on after you've used it. Let them plug in the vacuum cleaner. Having control of some steps helps desensitize kids.

8. Limit stress exposure

Don't have the TV news on constantly. Don't spend all day on your computer compulsively checking the news. Don't let your kids do it either. Be mindful of conversations your children overhear. If you need to vent your stress or anxiety, do it out of earshot of vulnerable children.

9. Increase calming exercises

You already know what calms your child. Use these strategies proactively during this period. Don't wait for a meltdown. Schedule calming activities each day and put them on the calendar. Examples might include deep massage, music, stretching, or playing with a favorite toy.

10. Show your kids positive images

Find positive images and stories to share with your child. This is easy to look up using Google. There are many examples of people helping each other through this difficult time. Find them and share them. Consider creating some yourself. For instance, you and your child can write notes or draw pictures for relatives or friends.

You Need A Plan in Case You Become Sick

While you might want to avoid this, you need to make a plan now in case you become ill.

You need to know who would care for your children and how your children would get into their care. Talk now to the person you would want to watch your children if you are suddenly unable. Make a list of what items your child would want or need to take if he/she had to go to someone else's house. Would he/she have to take any specific food items? Medicines? Give the person a copy of the list now.

Write up an agreement and email it to this person now. Have the person send it back to you with a statement that he/she agrees to it. Make sure to date to the agreement. You do not want strangers caring for your children, even for a brief period. This could happen if you were suddenly incapacitated.

Resources for Family Activities

YouTube: Use the search function and find videos related to your child's special interest (as long as that interest is positive and productive, of course).

Temple's book Calling All Minds: How to Think and Create Like an Inventor lets your child read about famous inventors and has lots of projects for families. You can order the book or read it online.

https://chatterpack.net Go to their blogs and find: "A list of free, online, boredom-busting resources."

https://www.northshoremums.com.au/fun-home-activities-with-kids Search for 115 Fun Activities to do at Home with Kids While Self-Isolating.

http://pandemicdistractions.com This includes links to books, art, videos, museums, zoos, exercises, online volunteer projects, and more.

To see how others handle living in a confined space, you can watch the astronauts on the international space station. Your child will learn how important routines are and how vital hygiene and cleaning is. There are lots of videos from the space station out there. Just Google "life on the international space station."

For kids who love math or computer science, try wolfram.com

For visual thinkers who love science, go to Google and search "protein symmetry" and specifically opt to search images.

Others:

kahnacademy.org. has video lessons for math, art, computer programming, and much more.

https://www.coursera.org/ has classes for older children on all things computer, technical, coding and more.

code.org has fun projects - 78 million! - grouped by age (usually eight years old and up).
Debra Moore, PhD, is a psychologist who worked extensively with children, teens, and adults on the autism spectrum. She facilitates the LinkedIn group Autism Spectrum Across the Lifespan and the Facebook page The Loving Push. Debra contributed two chapters (one co-authored with Dr. Temple Grandin) to The Nine Degrees of Autism (Routledge, 2015). She wrote the chapter Internet and Gaming Addiction in Youth on the Autism Spectrum: A Particularly Vulnerable Population in Internet Addiction in Children and Adolescents (Springer Publishers, 2017). She resides in rural Northern Virginia.
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THE UK'S LARGEST OCD CHARITY. We provide support and information to anybody affected by OCD. You are not alone - reach out for support today.

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No Panic have a helpline dedicated to supporting you.

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Imagine standing face to face with your fears, facing similar anxiety but sensing a newfound strength to confront them! Isn't it empowering? That's what exposure therapy does.

It is human nature to avoid situations, activities, and things that cause fear. It may suppress anxiety in the short term, but this can worsen your fears over time. Even a thought of that fear can lead to panic attacks.

Exposure therapy exposes you to the stimuli in a safe environment to uncover your inner reservoir of courage and resilience. You feel like the weight of fear is gradually reducing and getting replaced by a growing sense of empowerment.

In this blog written by Dr Becky Spelman the Private Therapy Clinic, we'll discuss what exposure therapy is, how it works for panic attacks, and what research says about its effectiveness in managing panic attacks.

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No Panic is a charity helping/supporting people who live with panic attacks, phobia's, OCD & other anxiety related disorders.

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The coronavirus pandemic is having a huge impact on our mental health. Help us be there for everyone who needs us at this crucial time.

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We’re Mind, the mental health charity | Mind

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We're Mind, the mental health charity. We're here to make sure no one has to face a mental health problem alone.

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Prevention is at the heart of our work in mental health.

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Mental Health Foundation | Good mental health for all

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Explore information to help you understand mental health and get advice on how you look after your own mental health or support someone you know with theirs.

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Not feeling great? You're not alone. The thing is not to ignore it. Don't just say 'I'm fine'.

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If things aren't right inside your head, it doesn't matter how much you can bench-press, how much you earn or how often you get laid, you won't feel good.
Stress is normal. One in four people will experience some kind of mental health problem in the course of a year. If you're a betting man, that's a 3 to 1 shot.

It's what we do about it that matters. You'll find nothing flash or clever here, just the facts in the words of men with experience. Think about the issues and react at your pace and as you want to. There are plenty of QUICK WINS plus links to help with the HARD STUFF. Take what you need and get on with your life.

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If things aren't right inside your head, it doesn't matter how much you can bench-press, how much you earn or how often you get laid, you won't feel good. Stress is normal. One in four people will experience some kind of mental health problem in the course of a year.

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The Campaign Against Living Miserably (CALM) is leading a movement against suicide. Every week 125 people in the UK take their own lives. And 75% of all UK suicides are male. CALM exists to change this. Join the campaign to take a stand against suicide.

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Campaign Against Living Miserably (CALM)

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We're the Campaign Against Living Miserably (CALM) and we're uniting the UK against suicide.

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Why Bipolar UK exists:

Bipolar is one of the biggest mental health challenges of the 21st century.

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Bipolar UK is the national charity dedicated to supporting individuals with the much misunderstood and devastating condition of bipolar, their families and carers.

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Do you often feel anxious, fearful or stressed? You’re not alone. There are millions of people like you. However, we can offer you an extensive range of expert help designed to help you to control your anxiety rather than letting it control you.

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National charity helping people with Anxiety - Anxiety UK

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Become a Member of Anxiety UK. We pride ourselves on being user led, with many on our staff and volunteer team having personal experience of anxiety.

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IXL is the world's most popular subscription-based learning site. Used by over 15 million students, IXL provides unlimited practice in more than 6,500 maths and English topics. Interactive questions, awards and certificates keep kids motivated as they master skills.

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Filmed training session on the Managing Money app to support adults' financial capability