Finding the right removals team can have a huge impact on how you experience a home move. 

Having practical assistance with the logistics of getting everything from your old home to your new home is often essential, and it’s important to make sure that you get a service that’s perfectly suited to your unique requirements. 

Below, we’ve outlined 5 questions to ask potential removals services, to help you find the right one for you. 

When thinking about strategies for helping our youngest children to improve their writing skills and eventually become successful writers, you may be surprised to learn that this does not start with the use of a pencil! Before the age of 5 yrs (and often later) the bones in a child’s hands are still developing and are not fully formed. This means that producing letters on paper can be challenging, and often detrimental to their overall physical development. Before focusing on the smaller movements such as pencil grip and fine motor control, children need lots of opportunities to build on their gross motor skills – working on their chest, shoulder and arm muscles as well as developing motor muscle planning in order to appropriately sequence body movements for a controlled and desired outcome.

It's not just their larger muscle development which forms part of the pre-requisites needed for successful writing later on – the act of writing and mark making itself needs to be purposeful, engaging and most importantly…fun! I could spend hours writing about the benefits of play-based learning, tailored to children’s interests, but essentially this is the long and short of it: If you want a child to be engaged with their learning, the learning needs to appeal to them and must be fun. If something is ‘fun’, we enjoy doing it, and when we enjoy doing something, we process it, retain and remember it much more effectively…we become more successful, because we enjoy it.

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