The new school – first parents’ evening
My daughter has been in Year 7 at a girls’ grammar school for half a term now. She has settled in incredibly well and has…
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The new school – homework stress
I feel lucky that my eldest breezed through his GCSEs without breaking into a sweat. He didn’t stress at all. My younger son doesn’t worry…
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The new school – feeling tired
It’s pretty much the thing you hear parents say more than anything: ‘He’s really tired… ‘ ‘She’s just SO TIRED’. It might be true or…
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The new school – juggling
Having three kids at three different schools was hard. My life was a constant juggling act. It was a jigsaw puzzle I could never entirely…
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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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Project 365 2017 Week 36
It’s the week we’ve all been waiting for – when my eldest and daughter both started at their new school. Here’s our week in pictures……
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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 new school open evening
My daughter had the open evening for her new grammar school last week. She had literally been counting down the days to it. By the…
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How many pantos?
When my daughter got into the panto for the first time last year, I said she could do it in year 5 and then not…
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‘I don’t want year 7 to end’
Well, my younger son has finished school for the year. Year 7 is over. And he’s not happy. While most kids can’t wait for school…
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The year 7 revision
As a teenager, I didn’t know how to revise. Nobody taught us back in those days. In fact, what I did was the exact opposite…
