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...
by Rebecca | Sep 8, 2018 | School
The night before our boy started junior school this week, he crawled into my lap at bedtime, and said simply, “I’m scared.” Even though he was going into a class with at least six of the children he had in his old class – some of them his dearest friends – he has felt...
by Rebecca | Jun 1, 2018 | Re: Writing
Using my 40th birthday four weeks ago as the tenuous reason for celebration, I suggested to my husband that we take the boys (6 and 4) to Disneyland Paris in May half term. Once we’d navigated the many and complex options out there (Disney hotel, or off site? Meal...
by Rebecca | May 11, 2018 | School
2019 note: I thought it couldn’t get any worse than this, but since I wrote this post, the government announced plans to scrap Year 2 SATs, and replace them with tests for all reception age children. There is a vocal movement to stop this horrible idea, and you...
by Rebecca | Mar 2, 2018 | Re: Writing
I didn’t think it would happen to us – our local school is famous for never closing during bad weather – but as the head teacher put it, these conditions are of a different order, and the whole family are at home for a Snowday. Last night I gleefully made a mental...
