Do you always give up on your New Year’s resolutions? When we set ourselves goals at the beginning of the year, we often don’t create a plan of action for how we’re going to achieve them. As the weeks and months go by, abstract goals can start to feel more and more overwhelming and unachievable. If one of your goals for 2020 is to improve your spelling, we’re here to help. Last week we shared the first part of our list of 20 tangible steps you can take to help you improve your spelling. Here’s part two: 11) Print off resources In part one, we talked about the value of getting away from your screen. As well printing...
Do you always give up on your New Year’s resolutions? When we set ourselves goals at the beginning of the year, we often don’t create a plan of action for how we’re going to achieve them. As the weeks and months go by, abstract goals can start to feel more and more overwhelming and unachievable. If one of your goals for 2020 is to improve your spelling, we’re here to help. Over the next two posts, we’ll share twenty tangible steps you can take to help you achieve: 1) Sign up for a free trial to Spellzone If you aren’t already subscribed to our courses, start here. A free trial will give you time to navigate y...
As the end of the year approaches, I find myself thinking about what I want from the New Year. In the past, on the blog, we’ve looked at the word ‘resolution’ as part of the Word for Wednesday feature, came up with spelling resolutions, and looked at idioms for new beginnings. For me the New Year is a time of renewal. In my resolutions, I try to refocus on old projects with fresh eyes just as much as I like to find new ones. The word ‘renew’ dates back to the late fourteenth century, from the prefix ‘re-’ meaning ‘again’ and the Middle English ‘newen’ meaning ‘resume, revive, renew’. ‘New’ comes from...
Happy New Year! We hope you’ve all had a fantastic winter holiday and have had chance to rest and can head into 2014 with renewed energy and motivation. It’s been an exciting 2013 for us here at Spellzone. With the arrival of the new-look site and lots of new features for you to check out, there’s plenty of reason to be getting excited about what the New Year might have in store. Since New Year’s has fallen on a Wednesday this year I thought I’d take the chance to blog about what will probably be a very widely used word today: Resolution. The word’s oldest ancestor seems to be the Latin 'resoluti', which has a delightful definition, app...
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One of the students has put in a huge amount of effort in completing Spellzone at least 3 times a week since his arrival with us in January. Looking at his scores after the latest GL testing, his standardised score has risen from 99 to 131. This is a truly phenomenal result. I just wanted to share the best result I have ever seen.
Terrie Penrose-Toms, Casterton College
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