Keep working slowly and steadily to help children maintain a work pattern throughout the Summer and their new term to follow. They will have a great start in their new classes. Reference -(what the expert say) also the previous post of how IQ is maintained by Summer work.
Some ideas for the holidays:
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AQE Assessment Schools
These results were published in the Belfast Telegraph Analysing the Transfer Test results can be a bit of a mine field for parents. the aim is to break the scores down to see how the schools selected in 2011. This is a difficult task as the unregulated system means that schools can use these scores in different ways to set their own entrance criteria. Some schools use a grade boundary system in which they select pupils falling in between specific grade quintiles, while others use the scores alone to determine who they select. There are also a few schools selecting on non-academic criteria such as pupils who will become boarders rather than day pupils and other criteria not disclosed. The tables below are divided firstly into regions to give parents a clear idea of the range of scores being accepted in the schools in their locality with a percentage of children accepted to each individual school compared to the number who applied. The last table shows the numbers of children in each quintile for the schools using this method of selection. Art lovers looking at a painting they think is fake have an entirely different response from those who think it is genuine, say researchers.
Brain scans revealed how much the enjoyment of art is influenced by the information given to the viewer. The pleasure revealed in brain activity depended on the viewer believing that a Rembrandt painting was authentic. Professor Martin Kemp of Oxford University says it shows "the way we view art is not rational". The pretension-puncturing experiment suggests that the appreciation of art is strongly linked to the accompanying information - rather than an objective judgement. The pleasure taken from a masterpiece is shaped by the viewer being told by others that this is an authentic work. Faking itThe study scanned the brains of people as they viewed images of Rembrandt portraits - some authentic and others which were imitations and fakes. Rembrandt was chosen as a good example because recent scholarship has been trying to identify imitations and copies of the Dutch painter's work. “Start QuoteEven when we cannot distinguish between two works, the knowledge that one was painted by a renowned artist makes us respond to it very differently” Martin KempProfessor of the History of Art, Oxford UniversityThe experiment in neuroscience and aesthetics compared how the brains reacted to paintings which people thought were authentic with their responses to paintings they were told were fakes. This found that the responses to viewing an authentic old master were deeply pleasurable, likened to tasting good food or winning a bet. This warm glow of aesthetic pleasure was absent when the viewers looked at an image they had been told was fake. Instead the brain activity was associated with strategy and planning, as though the subject was trying to work out why this was not an authentic painting. The study showed the strength of suggestibility in such artistic responses. The beauty was not just in the eye of the holder, but also it seems the copyright holder. By Sean Coughlan BBC News education correspondent Alll the best wishes to my students who worked so hard to complete the transfer exams. I cant wait until February to hear the results!!
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