by Rebecca | Jun 7, 2019 | School
The school trips I did as a child are one of my strongest memories. The smell of the coaches, the excitement, wanting to eat my lunch as soon as we got there at 9:30, just being somewhere and learning things in a brand new environment…I remember every single...
by Rebecca | May 10, 2019 | School
Last year, our little boy was 6 years old, and in Year 2. Nobody told him he was doing SATs, but he knew something was up – here’s the account of what was happening then: SATs: this is what they’re doing to our 6-year-old. When I shared that post,...
by Rebecca | Dec 14, 2018 | Christmas, School
There is so much magic in the infants’ Nativity Play, from the obvious and undeniable cute factor, to the shepherd who won’t give Baby Jesus his lamb (one of them threw it through the stable window in a nativity my sister did – most amusing,...
by Rebecca | Dec 7, 2018 | Christmas, School
Yesterday was one of my favourite days in our infant school calendar – Christmas Shop. Kids love Christmas because of the presents, obviously – their own presents, and in my experience, any that the people around them will let them open too! The joy of receiving a...
by Rebecca | Sep 28, 2018 | School
We are halfway to the October half term holiday now, and by and large the move to junior school has gone well for our eldest. He’s happy to go in the mornings (unless he thinks of something else he’d rather be doing), and has plenty to tell us in the evenings about...
by Rebecca | Sep 21, 2018 | School
This blog post title sounds like a post on a mums’ forum, and in some ways, it could be. I’ve just waved my nearly-five-year-old off to full time school. He loves it. He bounces in first thing in the morning, and bounces out again full of his favourite anecdotes...
