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How Touch Typing Can Help Get Thoughts on Paper
This is one of my 10 year old students touch typing at over 20wpm. He struggles with working memory and finds handwriting difficult. Being able to touch type in school is going to be life changing for him. All children should learn this #lifeskill
Has your child ever tried to learn something on their own and given up?
Have you ever tried an online course and given up? I have plenty of times. It's usually because I start off with all good intentions, fired up and raring to go, and then by day 4, it's starting to get a bit tiresome, less interesting or there are other priorities that...
February Half Term Touch Typing Courses – Book Now!
Come and join me! My name is Wendy, and I am the Owner and Founder of Type IT! For the last 11 years I have been teaching children how to touch type which means I help them type automatically without ever looking at their fingers! It means they can get all their...
How to beat those January Blues, from the Type IT! Team
Christmas seems to have flown by far too fast.  One minute we are all admiring the Christmas lights in the street and feeling nostalgic, going for Christmas strolls and watching those feel-good films and even dare I say, singing and jigging to Christmas songs in the...
Different styles of learning
I had a bit of an epiphany yesterday. I’m still working really hard on my confidence in the pool. For almost 3 years now, I’ve been triathlon training and swimming is my achilles heel. Being super fit doesn’t make you a great swimmer, or so I’ve realised. And it’s...
Are you a touch typist?
Although touch typing is the most efficient way to type, there are other ways to do it. Hunting and pecking with one finger isn’t the most efficient way to touch type! Which one do you do? Touch typing Touch typing - this is where you learn to memorise the keyboard...
How can we start the New Year in the right way?
It's happened again. All those plans to be "good" over New Year and yet, things seem to have rather gone out of the window. But don't feel bad; I think after the last year, with longer working hours and stressful uncertainty, that we all needed a bit of time out and...
Touch typing intensive course
I’m really proud of this review from one of our parents. Her son recently attended one of our intensive touch typing courses and it was clear that our usual planned programme wasn’t quite right for him. We tailor the course to suit the child So we tailored a course...
How do you get a good night’s sleep?
With the pandemic in our minds along with work and family life, anxiety (or the menopause!) it is hard to switch off sometimes and get a good night's sleep.  So how can you get a good night's sleep? Try to keep a consistent bedtime during the week and weekends.  At...
The 21st Century Office!
I think we all want a good work life balance. I’ve been lucky for the last 25 years being able to work flexibly around my family. I’ve seen first hand the benefits it can bring. A recent survey of 2000 UK tech workers found out that 72% said remote working was...