Fun and learning
This website is intended for you to use with your child. The experience should be fun for both of you. If it is not, then do something else. Children learn through play and exploration, so make sure that they are doing something that is within their capabilities but which challenges them a little.

Make sure that they get lots of successes, and praise them for their achievements. If they fail to do something, give them encouraging words, and support, but not ‘empty praise’.

We have designed the activities on this website to be progressive – each one is harder than the previous, so start at the beginning and work through them and if your child is finding an activity ‘hard going’, then go back to the previous one.

Your child will learn best if they learn for themselves with your help and support. So let them try the activities for themselves – let them discover what to do. Be patient and don’t show them, or take the mouse from them. They will have much more of a sense of achievement if they find out for themselves.

Your role is to support and encourage and to help them to get over any problems that they might encounter.

If you are with more than one child, work out some strategies for sharing, Let them take turns, either based on time in front of the screen or based on achieving a goal with a particular exercise. You could have other, non-computer-based, activities that they can do when not at the computer.