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- School should continue to be a place where she has fun as she learns. Lots of praise and encouragement from you will help deepen her confidence in her abilities. Support her learning and encourage her to enjoy all the different activities school offers. By all means join her in outside activities that complement school and help her discover different skills and social groups.
- Help her develop good study habits. Provide a quiet place to do homework; look through her work offering praise and encouragement and asking questions; help by testing spellings, tables etc and support her when she is asked to research the Tudors, minibeasts etc.
- Encourage her to have a wide circle of friends rather than just one or two “best friends”, it spreads the emotional load so that when the occasional but inevitable fall-outs occur she has back-up
- If she becomes reluctant to go to school look for a pattern: does she have a spelling test or PE on Wednesdays? A different teacher? How are her friendships? Girls’ friendships are the most important things in their lives at every age
- Try not to get directly involved in your daughter’s inevitable friendship tangles. Parent to parent discussions seldom solve and usually inflame the issue. Talk with her about how she could handle the current situation. She will need to develop her own skills to resolve her problems; you cannot and should not do everything. Approach her teacher if it’s causing her real distress.
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