Why join the PTA at your kids’ school
Why join the PTA at your kids’ school. If you’re not involved, here’s why you should be joining, and how it benefits parents, students, school and teachers
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Mixed ability PE or set by ability in school
Setting, streaming, ability grouping. Whatever you want to call it, it’s different in most schools. Most secondary schools seem to set children from Year 7 in maths, and possibly science. Languages tends to come later, and English seems to happen…
School days – playground injuries and targets
This week was the penultimate week of school for this year. N’s last but one week of being in year 2. It’s been an interesting week with injuries and then, dating in fun day which is his favourite day of…
Judgements on not walking kids to school
With everyone talking about the increase in obesity amongst children, it’s not unusual to read articles about children no longer walking to school. Or comments on social media about parents driving their children right up to the school gates and…
Feeling guilty about lack of reading
When you’re pregnant your main wish for your child is that they’re healthy. The next wish is that you know what you’re doing and can cope with having a baby. And then a variety of different hopes. For me I…
How to get kids reward charts to work
Ever since we started thinking about potty training we’ve had a reward system. And before now it’s never really worked before. N just wasn’t bothered. Stickers have never really been his thing, even though he knew there would be something…
Learning about health and exercise at school
One of the great things about children starting school is that you no longer have to answer every question they ask. I’m presuming the teachers get a lot of their questions too. But there’s also the mystery about what they…
The mystery that is primary school uniform
To those of you with school age children already, do share your experiences and advice. I’m after a lot of information to help smooth my (I reckon the kids get the easy end of the deal) path into the school…
13 essential tasks for preparing children starting school
We’re only a couple of weeks off starting school (every day I get asked, ‘when’s September?’) but I think I’ve got a pretty good grasp of the things that need to be checked off before starting. So I thought I’d…
It’s the final countdown from nursery, with sports day
As I’ve mentioned (a few times) before, N is starting school in September. I’ve been seeing on social media everyone else’s last days at preschool, and reading all about other parents’ emotional ‘end of nursery’ posts. We’re probably not the…
Month of Firsts 11 – Flumes, school and camping
It’s been a busy month, ending with the nightmare of no internet, hence the delay in writing up our Month of Firsts for this month. Lack of decent internet is the annoying thing about living In the sticks, and there…