How can my child practice topics they’re finding tricky?

Atom Home has been designed to balance introducing new topics to your child, reinforcing essential skills they need to practice regularly, and giving them another chance to improve in tricky topics. 

There are two ways your child can practice topics they’re finding tricky:

• In their exam prep plan. 
• Setting an extra practice for your child.

Your child's exam prep plan.

Your child’s exam prep plan includes recap islands, which give your child another chance to practice answering questions and improve in topics that they find challenging.

Since recap islands focus on the topics your child needs to strengthen, encourage them to make use of the videos, help sheets and explanations to fill any gaps in their knowledge or confidence.

Click here for more information about how your child's weekly islands are assigned.

Setting an extra practice for your child. 

1. Log in to your account and click the profile symbol in the top right-hand corner.

2. Select Set a practice, which is the first option from the drop down list.
3. On the Set a practice page, you can set a practice for your child in the topics they’re finding challenging. 

When setting extra practices for your child, we recommend:

• Sorting by the performance column to see which topics would benefit most from extra practice.
• Setting one or two extra practices per week.
• Focusing on one topic at a time, per practice.
• Setting between 10 and 15 questions per practice.
  

In the final months before your child’s exams, we recommend:

• Setting 3 to 4 extra practices per week. 
• Aiming for every topic's performance to be showing green before exam day.

Read our guide to learn more about understanding your child’s performance levels.