Blog Posts tagged Summer

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4 Quick Tips for Keeping Your Brain Active Over Summer

by Grace Dickins

Most college students take a break from their studies during the summer. This can be a useful time for you to re-focus and re-charge your brain. But how exactly do you do that? (Especially when it's oh-so-tempting to binge watch seasons of Game of Thrones on Netflix.) Not that you shouldn't allow yo...

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What Are Some Good Ways to Learn During the Summer?

by Grace Dickins

The summer is a wonderful time of year for a lot of things - relaxing in parks, eating ice lollies and getting a good suntan. But learning new things and keeping your brain sharp are not always high on the summer to-do list. How can you avoid the "brain drain" that sets in as the temperature creeps ...

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FREE family days out for the summer holidays

by Sarah Adams

Summer's coming and although it may feel as though the kids have only just gone back to school, they'll need entertaining once again this summer holiday. There's no need to break the bank though, we've found some FREE family days out available nationwide!

Woodland Trust

The Woodland Trust offers f...

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Hooray! Exams are over!

by Sara

Hooray! Exams are over! Now is the time to de-stress, chill out, sleep and enjoy the summer. Much has been written about pre-exam anxiety, lack of sleep and high stress levels during the exam period, but few think about the after effects of those symptoms.

You will have been slouching over books, s...

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Long summer holidays could be a thing of the past

by Emily

As this year's school summer holiday fades like a distant memory, it has been revealed that politicians are to consider scrapping the long six week break altogether. The Labour MP Frank Field is to submit a review to the coalition government which calls for an end to the long break. Field says that ...

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