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Puzzles and jigsaws are a basic part of every toy collection, but what do children learn from doing them? Are your puzzles too easy or too hard for your child? How many pieces should they be able to manage? Marie Yuncken, a paediatric occupational therapist with many years experience in using play to develop children's skills, will conduct the next workshop on puzzles at Playways.  

Marie will offer ideas to make puzzles interesting and fun, even for those children who find them difficult. Her workshop will help parents select the most appropriate puzzles for the age of their child and look at enhancing their ongoing learning skills. 

The two-hour workshop will be held on Wednesday 26 April 2006 at 7.15 pm (registration 6.50pm), with refreshments provided. Space is limited so book early.  

Testing time call for clever measures: Scolarship preparation 

Top private schools are gearing up for scholarship exams designed to help select the best students from hundreds of applicants.  

For several years, Clever Kids Education Centres have offered eastern states students effective Scholarship Exam Preparation Workshops to maximise their chances of getting selected. Now Clever Kidsí new Claremont centre is proud to offer the same opportunity to the Perth community. 

Each four-hour workshop covers effective strategies, time-management issues and practice opportunities relevant to each section of the exam. The programme has proved especially beneficial to younger applicants inexperienced in sitting exams. 

Stimulate your child's mind with QED 

QED is a spectacular range of soft cover books written specifically for young children between two and eight years old. With colourful pictures, challenging and exciting content and excellent information for parents, the QED range is an ideal resource for your child's home library at an affordable price at between $13.95 and $16.95 each. 

With over 90 titles to chose from, QED offers young children a wide variety of fiction and non-fiction to stimulate imagination and encourage the development of vocabulary, mathematical concepts, scientific concepts and build on reading, thinking and writing skills. 

Titles for the very young include Start Talking, Start Reading, Start Writing, Start Maths, Reading and Thinking, Reading and Listening; all collections of inspirational and informative texts to enrich and guide young imaginations. For five to 10-year-olds, QED titles include series focusing on animal lives, artforms, technology, science, maths, writing and vocabulary. 

Are literacy concerns keeping you awake at night? 

No wonder parents and students become so anxious about formal learning and literacy at the beginning of the school year! Reading and writing are essential skills for life. Quick fixes are freely available on the market but can only ëband-aidí the difficulties that students have.   

Your Turn Speech Pathology understands that there are essential skills students need to develop before they can begin to successfully learn to read and write.    

ìLiteracy success is strongly linked to a childís talking and communication skills,î explains Christine Figueiredo from Your Turn Speech Pathology.  ìAn awareness of the sounds in words, together with well-developed language skills, are essential to literacy success.î