What The School Librarian Thinks… of Dekko Comics
Collins Publishing and LittleStuff very kindly sent us a set of Dekko Comics for review recently, and I haven’t been able to keep them on the shelves! Our Year 6 teacher seems to have been hoarding his set to use in lesson plans, Year 5 trade them under the desks like contraband, and every one of the library copies vanishes into a corner whenever our lunchtime KS2 book club is running. The feedback from the children has been...
Learning French – ‘ere we go… (also – Rosetta Stone discount code!)
This year on our trip to the Dordogne I’ll admit I was pretty happy with myself. When we first went to France as a family, I was the only one who had a smattering of French – and that was seriously rusty from the long hiatus since my GCSE days. Over the years and holidays it’s slowly improved, and the whole family has been getting better as we try at every opportunity to get by with French rather than expecting the...
Back To School Teens? Don’t miss these five often-overlooked stationery essentials.
If you’re an organised school parent, by now you have the uniform ready, the shoes polished, the sports kit checked and replenished. School bags may need replacing – or simply throwing in the washing machine to see them through another year. But are you all stocked up on the stationery drawer? I’m going to presume you’ve already thought of a large pack of biros, pencils (don’t forget to get them in a...
Win a Back To School Book Bundle for 11-12yr olds with Collins
If you’ve not made friends with it yet, then you need to go and introduce yourself to the Collins4Parents website. It’s not only jam-packed with excellent books for every stage of your child’s learning, but they also offer a boat load of useful resources and practical guides to help both you and your resident student. And right now Collins are offering a 40% discount on selected books for Back to School until 10 September 2017 when...
Wild Foraging with Robinsons Fruit Shoots
I think I first wrote about our love of foraging six years ago, when there was an apple glut and we were about to review a juicer (handy). So when Robinson’s got in touch and asked if we’d like to forage for a new flavour Fruit Shoot, it was an easy yes for us (apart from anything else, as home educators, we’re always looking for new things to learn, and this was a fab way to get 10yr old Bear out into the woods and...
Will your daughter play for SSE WildCats? | Girls Football
There’s nothing worse than dragging your child somewhere they don’t want to go, is there? Actually, there is. Dragging your child somewhere that they don’t want to go – that you’re only going to because you think they’ll love it. And so it was last Saturday, when I poked the reluctant Bear from her lovely Saturday lie-in so that we could make the training session for the local SSE Wildcats Girls...