Primary children see the highest learning loss from Covid-19
After a long stint of remote learning, online tutoring, and self-learning, in-person learning is a new experience for many of the youngest children in the UK. We’re only just beginning…
After a long stint of remote learning, online tutoring, and self-learning, in-person learning is a new experience for many of the youngest children in the UK. We’re only just beginning…
January 2021 and that dreaded news hits our ears: “schools are closing to all students“. I can deal with all other restrictions but closing the schools to the children just…
Lockdown 3 is a lot different to the first lockdown. I know I am not the only one to think that. In the Spring it was bright, sunny, dry and…
When we talk of homeschooling, it doesn’t necessarily have to mean endless flashcards and workbooks. Remember that it’s a homeschool, so it doesn’t have to handle like a private or…
With Back to School (hopefully) around the corner I teamed up with SMASH to offer one lucky reader the chance to win this fab bundle of lunch bags and water…
On the 9th June 2020 we found out that the former caretaker at the children’s first primary school had been charged with 21 offences in relation to children. I have…
With the back to school photos covering social media; perfectly poised children and their perfectly ironed uniforms. It made me think about what we do to prepare for the back…
You may have seen on some of my Instagram Stories that we took the decision, after a few months of being in our new house, to move the kiddies to…
The school summer holidays might only last for six weeks, but if you have kids it can feel like six years. For parents of younger children particularly, the holiday means…
Yes I am referring to that wretched video spreading across social media like wild fire. I have spent the past 48 hours with both children gripped to my arms. They…
Yes, I managed to continue the facade of ditzy Mum today. Ever since the children started school and pre-school in September there have been numerous occasions where the children have…
It has been quite hectic, I am sure I don’t need to explain that to other parents out there. I actually felt quite sad this morning, I was “that” Mum…
This weekend we had so much fun, we very spontaneously ended up at High Lodge in Thetford Forest. I had never heard of it before but it is only 40…