The school held a zoominar (zoom) today about testing in year 2. Phonics, Key Stage 2. The focus was how the school will do everything it can to support the children, ensuring a safe space to sit the tests so they are not intimidated, and a low key approach to reduce stress and worry. ItContinue reading “Testing, Testing, 1 2 3”
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Health and Safety
Every time one of the girls has to visit the ‘medical’ at school (I think the ‘medical’ is just a room set aside for a bit of first aid and a lovely member of staff called Gloria, who may or may not be a nurse though I presume and hope has some kind of firstContinue reading “Health and Safety”
Bribery and Bitter Lemons
I gave all three children a cookie today. Nothing very unusual about that. Except that it was 7.55am. It was a bribe. I was bribing them out of the house to go to school. When that only partially worked, I gave them another cookie each. Before I knew it, I had three girls, in uniform,Continue reading “Bribery and Bitter Lemons”
Rapunzel’s Tidy Time
‘Sam do you know what I’m going to do now?’ I am looking at the living room floor, except that I’m not because I can’t see it, covered as it is with dressing up clothes. Strewn across the floor. I start picking them up in arm fills and stuffing them back into the dressing upContinue reading “Rapunzel’s Tidy Time”
