Parents ‘more involved in children’s schools’: Are you involved with your children’s school?
A survey conducted by the NAHT suggest that 93% of parents feel welcomed in their children’s school. Surely that can’t right?
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The start of a magical journey into the world of books
I am so happy that RoRo has made the important jump into enthusiastic independent reading.
The dangers of stranger danger
Do you tell your children not to talk to strangers? Do you worry the stranger danger message could make them unfriendly and isolated?
The Year 1 Phonics Screening Check
The Year 1 phonics screening check will see children reading 40 words to their teacher to test their grasp on phonics.
Why is a letter and you should know better
Eleanor has started asking ‘Why?’ It took me a while to register that she was doing so and seemingly actually asking ‘Why?’ rather than just repeating a word she’s heard Rosemary use. ‘We need to hurry up and get dressed.’ ‘Why?’ ‘Because we need to go and meet Granny.’ …
What’s wrong with homework?
If you’re a parent and you tweet, it’s very likely you’re aware of Kirstie Allsopp’s (of Location, Location, Location fame) campaign against homework. And I see and hear other parents complaining about homework and saying they are homework free. I just don’t get it. What is wrong with homework? I …
Learning to read
This afternoon, I spent 5 minutes or so making a new word flip book for Rosemary, using a Post-it pad. She’s been doing very well with the flip book I made a few weeks ago and that we’ve been adding to, which started off just with the first letters they …
School uniform
In August, we went out and bought Rosemary’s school uniform. There was a list of items, which included things like: school sweatshirt (worn once so far, incidentally, and bought two of them) summer dress grey, navy or black dress, skirt or trousers, black shoes white or blue polo shirts black …
A buddy system for parents?
Wouldn’t it be great to have a buddy system for new parents, as well as for new children?
There’s a skeleton in the closet
The picture’s just a pretty picture and absolutely nothing to do with the post. If Rosemary wasn’t in bed already, I’d go take a photo of her wardrobe, or get her to dress up in her skeleton costume to illustrate it properly. But, instead I want to show off this …
