July, the last month of the school year, and it’s been quite a spectacular one. With Covid rules, pretty much a full term of remote learning, and our school’s mini bubbles to help even further, it’s been an odd year….
June’s been a great month at school for N. Ok, there’ve been some things he’s not keen on (moaning about the food has increased since the old cook left, and he moaned about that enough!), and having to do more…
Tweens and independence. There’s always a stage where children need to be given more independence. But it’s hard to know when that is. Especially when there’s a disagreement between parents as to how to deal with it. I never thought…
This year is flying by, seemingly faster with every month that goes by. May was full of miserable weather, but school still managed to get through a lot. Thankfully N’s couple of sore throats and slightly raised tonsils, was just…
The school year is whizzing by. We’re already into the summer term, and hoping that within a month or so, we’ll be able to relax some of the social distancing so the children can do things like sports day, although…
It’s the end of another school term, and we’re getting ever closer to the end of another school year. Year 5, and one that seems to have rushed by, with over half a term of it as remote learning. Thankfully…
My view on parenting is that it’s our job to make our children ready to be unleashed on the world on their own. At whatever age that ends up being. Hopefully the time they leave home they’re ready for the…
The one thing that remote learning has done, has provided parents more of an insight into the work and learning their children are doing. Unless children are in a different room or in headphones all day, school work has been…
Over the last year children (and their teachers) have had a lot thrown at them. It’s certainly something they’ll look back on as part of history, with hopefully some fond memories as well as recalling how shocking it can be…
For the majority of us parents, we didn’t sign up to remote learning. It’s something that has to be done for most parents and children at the moment, and it’s not all been bad. We know we’re lucky compared to…
Not all children enjoy school. Not all children find it easy. Some work hard and want to do well, but don’t enjoy certain parts of the work they have to do. It’s also often harder to get children doing school…