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Why a girls’ grammar school might be the best choice for a boy
It’s been over a year since my son left the girls’ grammar school where he had studied for two years. He walked in there with…
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The A Level results
So my 18 year old son has only gone and smashed it with his A Levels. Lots of kids will have done. But for my…
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Leaving school
So my eldest has left school. Not finished primary school. Not finished for his GCSEs. He has LEFT SCHOOL. Finished year 13. It’s a weird…
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My biggest teenage parenting struggle
I’m nearly five years into parenting teenagers. I now have three teenagers – one of them nearly an adult, one who is 15 and a…
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The new school – settling in
So my daughter has been at her new school a couple of weeks now. And it’s felt like a complete whirlwind. On the one hand,…
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Three grammar school kids
So I have three grammar school kids. If you’d told me two years ago that it would be possible, I would have laughed. When my…
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The GCSE results
Well, the big day has arrived. Two and a bit months after my son sat his last GCSE exam, it’s GCSE results day! My son…
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Why I think a girls’ school is the right place for my boy
It is nearly a year since my eldest, the bright boy who does very little school work, announced his intentions to go to grammar school…
