【推荐1】Best online-learning platforms

Age range: suitable for children aged 5~16

Price: £99 per year or £15 per month, family discount packages available

An EdPlace subscription gives your child access to thousands of interactive tutorial（家庭教师的）worksheets covering the core national curriculum subjects: English, maths and science up to GCSE level. Worksheets created by teachers with at least five years of experience are assigned to your child and adaptive technology tailors assignments to match your child’s progress.

Age range: any age

Price: free to sign up, rates are set by tutors

No matter what subject your kids need a bit of help with, Tutorful matches children (or adults) with the right tutor to boost their confidence and maximize their potential. You can browse thousands of tutors and filter(筛选) by location, level of expertise, and more.

Age range: suitable for children aged 13～16

Price:14-day free trial, then £18.99 per month

Ideal for older children, Your Favorite Teacher is an online-learning platform that’ll help your child do better in their GCSE exams, with English, maths and science courses created by experienced teachers. Your child’s subject knowledge will quickly improve through engaging, teacher-led videos.

Age range: suitable for children aged 5～16

Price: free

BBC Bitesize offers resources for a broad range of subjects from KSl to GCSE. “Lessons” are delivered to younger children through engaging videos and games and older children can access notes followed by tasks to test their knowledge. BBC Bitesize has resources specifically tailored to the curricula for Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales, too.

【推荐3】What to Expect on a Snowskool Instructor Course

Three Valleys 11 Weeks

January through to March, Three Valleys works with the British Alpine Ski School (BASS). BASS is a specialist instructor-training center, full of BASI Examiners and those who teach the most experienced teachers! This is our toughest course. Tuition (教学) is provided 5 hours a day/5 days a week. On this course, you will work towards the qualifications of BASI (British Association of Snowsport Instructors).

Big White 13 Weeks

January through to March, tuition is offered five hours a day/five days a week. All SnowSkool ski and snowboard tuition is delivered by the most senior instructors in the Big White Ski&Board School. The group sizes are kept small with a maximum of just eight per trainer. You’re unlikely to get that on other instructor courses. Here you’ll have the opportunity to sit the Level 1 and Level 2 exams of CSIA (Canadian Ski Instructors Alliance).

Banff 11 Weeks

January through to March, tuition is offered five days a week, up to six hours a day. Tuition is delivered by our pick of the most highly-qualified and experienced ski instructors. On this course, you’re also working towards your Level 1 and 2 CSIA qualifications.

Cardrona 11 Weeks

The course runs through the months of July and September-New Zealand’s winter. On SnowSkool’s New Zealand course, tuition is provided five hours a day/five days a week. The trainers employed have been hand-picked for their experience and their ability to train future instructors. On this course, you’ll work towards your Level 1&.Level 2 exams.

Click here and come to our blog for more articles of our courses. If you still have questions, get in touch by emailing phil@snowskool.co.uk.

【推荐1】Why do we feel anxiety about starting something new? Why do we hold ourselves back from beginning a new job, a new business, starting or ending a relationship?     1    .

The first way we can begin to deal with our anxiety is to acknowledge it. When we don’t acknowledge our fear,     2    . That’s why it’s so important to reflect on why you are hesitant to begin your new project. Without reflection, fear runs rampant (猖獗的). But once the anxiety is acknowledged, you can begin to ease it with logical and emotional arguments.

    3    . One powerful way to ease your fears is to embrace your anxiety. Get familiar with the feeling of being afraid, and accept it! It’s there to protect you, but it doesn’t have to control you. In fact, go ahead and accept that failure is possible. Even plan on doing it wrong first.

Another way to reduce anxiety is to concentrate your life on leaning, instead of achievement. When you shit your focus away from badges of success and to a learning mindset,     4    . Your ultimate goal is simply to learn.

Finally, just remember everyone feels fear. Everyone has to go through learning periods before they find what really works. All the most successful people have actually just failed more than regular people. Though having failed many times, they’ve ended up learning more than most and building something great.     5    . That’s why we need courage. So if all else fails, just do it scared.

【推荐2】Pick-your-own farms are set for a post-lockdown boom this summer, as people look to support local businesses and spend more time outdoors. Here are four of our favorites.

Parkside Farm, Enfield

Juicy blackberries, and strawberries are the stars of the show at this pick-your-own place on the northern edge of London. One key selling point is the “table-top” strawberry-growing system, which means plants are grown in places at waist height — no more bending down in the dirt to pick your berries. Parkside is also one of the few farms accessible without a car, as long as you don’t mind a walk — it’s 25 minutes from Gordon Hill station.

Craigie’s Farm, Scotland

Just outside Edinburgh, Craigie’s Farm is bursting with produce including cherries, peas, broad beans and, perhaps surprisingly, sunflowers. The onsite shop, deli and cafe have a lot more to offer besides fruits and vegetables — you can pick up homemade jams, meat, cheese and an apple press for making your own juice. There are activities for children too, including a Nature Detective Trail involving encounters with sheep and goats.

Hewitts Farm, Kent

This family-run farm in Kent offers everything from spinach to apples and blackberries during its pick-your-own season, which runs from June to October (for Halloween pumpkins). There’s also a shop selling farm-grown and local produce, as well as free tractor rides for youngsters on Sundays during the summer.

Bellis Brothers Farm, Wrexham

This farm in North Wales started growing strawberries back in 1860 and has operated as a pick-your-own since 1967. More fruits have been added since then, but it’s still mostly known for its strawberries. Pickers can download Bellis family strawberry recipes from the farm’s website, including those for jams and a baked strawberry cheesecake.

【推荐3】Florence and Tuscany

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Tuscany embodies much that Italy is famous for, possessing more historical monuments than any other country on earth. Its cities, Florence, Siena and Pisa, together with smaller towns and medieval villages like Lucca and San Gimignano, house some of the world’s finest artistic treasures. Combine this with the beauty of it’s countryside, an enviable climate and one of the world’s great cuisines, and you have all the ingredients for a superb holiday.

Discover the city of Florence on a fascinating tour with a local guide

Experience the wonders of the Uffizi art gallery

Marvel at the medieval splendour of Siena on a tour led by a local guide

Visit San Gimignano, whose mighty high-rise towers dominate the surrounding countryside

See Pisa, its Leaning Tower and explore charming Lucca

Explore the beautiful Tuscan countryside

Enjoy authentic Tuscan food at a rural farmhouse

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