Receiving your GCSE exam results can be an exhilarating yet nerve-wracking experience. You’ve put in months of hard work and dedication, hoping to see your efforts reflected in those all-important grades. However, life doesn’t always go as planned, and sometimes the results may not match your expectations. If you find yourself in this situation, it’s […]
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The lovely Lisa from Lisa’s Notebook tagged me in The Power of Education – the Education and Parent Blogger Tag created by Freddies’s Mummy something a bit different and an interesting way to see how we all view education and what the future holds for our children. Education for me is the most important thing you can […]
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In our continuing series on homeschooling, we have a lovely guest post from Jenny. She blogs over Facebook and is sharing her family’s homeschooling journey and what they do. You can also find her on Facebook and Monkey and Mouse I’m Jenny, a mum of two children aged 5 and 7 from Scotland. Neither of my […]
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Welcome to the first in our series of guest posts sharing all about the world of homeschooling. Something that many more parents are starting to do, for reasons that work for them and their families. Today we have the lovely Sonia from My Mamma’s School sharing why they homeschooled here when living in the UK, […]
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As a parent what really matters for my children? My children amaze me. I don’t know why that continually surprises me, at almost nine years into this parenting thing, but I still have real moments of “wow, they are really mine, I must be doing something right, they’re doing ok, in fact, they’re doing really […]
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Yes, I know it’s Monday, but this rant was supposed to go out on Friday, but it was a bad week for computers and internet in our house so I got behind. You can start your week off with a rant! This week, I am have a chunter about the school inspection system, that we […]
READ MOREI thought, that sending Little Man off into the big wide world of school, doing the whole starting school thing, second time round, would be easier. Nope, it’s not. Little Man had his “induction day” at school today. He spent some time in his new Reception classroom, with the teacher and classroom assistant that will […]
READ MOREAm I wrong to think that a person who has donated a vast amount of money to the conservative party, who has limited experience of actually working in schools, and ran Carphone Warehouse as his last major job role, is NOT a suitable candidate for the job of being in charge of the team at […]
READ MOREDear Michael Gove, I dislike you, intensely. I have never met you, I hope I never do, because frankly, I don’t think I would be able to restrain myself, I would likely either want to slap you or be very rude to you. You HAVE NO IDEA what actually goes on in schools, how hard […]
READ MOREThis week, I am delighted to have a guest post. My friend Nicola, whom I have known since we were at prep school together, in Scotland, (now I feel old) is a teacher, who works in Essex. She has many years experience in the teaching profession, and works very hard, as do most of the […]
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