Key Stage Three books

[suedonim]

Can anyone recommend some home study books for Key Stage Three? Dd is 11 and in Yr 7 at an international school. We feel the teaching needs a bit of supplementing and also dh and I need to inform/update ourselves on the English curriculum. TIA!

the CGA (?) ones are good and are mildly amusing in parts, which help.

BBC bitesize revision online is good too

Thanks for that, MB, I'll have a look for them.

CGP

Thanks again. I'm a bit overwhelmed by the choice, though! Which is the best to get, the Revision Guides or what? I'm assuming (hoping!) we don't need all of them?

We sell (at cost) the revision guides to our kids and they are quite good.

To ge the best out of them, I would get the workbook as well (not seen the practice papers so I can't comment on them) Not seen the all in one book either, but that may be the best one for you

Okay. I've left it a bit late to get any, as we're supposed to be leaving the UK this week (actually, should have gone a week past Friday but visas still aren't back). I'll have to scoot round the local bookstores to see what I can find.

I'd better look more carefully at that website! And tell dh we can't go before Thurs.

W H Smith sells the CGP ones.

Right, we can't go until Thursday now.

I got the books today. They actually arrived yesterday but went to my neighbour as we were out. Thanks for the recommendation, very good service! As it is, we're now not going back to Nigeria until Monday at the earliest. Dd will be feral by then.

That's awful, Fio. I don't think I knew Ricardo even though he ages with me, but I knew his sister or niece (not sure which branch of the family they were each in) Giovanna quite well. She has DS but her parents didn't put her 'in an institution' as so often happened in those days. I used to see her every day when I got the train to and from school. She'd be waiting in the garden for me when I walked home. I wonder where she is now? My mum seems to think she had a job with the old East Kent bus company.

Another vote for CGP books. They have a lot packed into them, and are very likeable and kid-friendly (complete with jokes on every page).

Look no further than the BBC Bitesize website for online stuff.

Aw, Giovanna will miss him soo much. ISTR she was a late baby and spoilt rotten by the older ones. Their mum was lovely, a typically dark-haired, cuddly and warm Italian mamma. I loved going to Macari's esp if my mum let me have some foam off her coffee. Macari's sold cappucinos before the rest of the UK had even heard of them. I also had my first migraine courtesy of them, after drinking a bright red cherryade!!!!