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Monthly Archives: July 2009
Saturday evening and night.
So let’s see, we’re at the playpark and I have an extra child. Have to say, it’s a pretty good playpark. Small spent his time going up the climbing centre of the octopus frame and coming down various slides, and … Continue reading
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Saturday at Festival of History
As is usual when camping, the children woke up far too early, though tbh it wasn’t nearly as early as it could have been given the late night. The plan was to make a quick get away from the campsite … Continue reading
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Wandering to Wicksteed
Oh, this blog is getting very out of date again Anyways, last weekend was the Festival of History, as has been blogged several places My original plan was to travel over on the Thursday, spend Friday at Wicksteed park, then … Continue reading
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Books That Stuck (Part The Second)
See here for Jax’s list and the rules. Winnie The Pooh – A. A. Milne Mein Kampf – Adolf Hitler Barbarossa – Alan Clark Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury The Sentinel – Arthur C. Clarke Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens … Continue reading
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Books that stuck
First seen on facebook Rules: Don’t take too long to think about it. Fifteen books you’ve read that will always stick with you. First fifteen you can recall in no more than 15 minutes. Tag 15 friends, including me because … Continue reading
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A chink in the armour?
On Weds I was heartened to receive an email from the Select Committee on Children, Schools and Families, advising me of their inquiry into the review. Along with a response from the UK Statistics Authority implying that they are looking … Continue reading
Is it just me?
“I initially thought he was dyslexic and took him to be tested but, because he could not read very well, the test did not work and they could not determine whether he was or was not.” ??? Does this mean … Continue reading
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Commuter.
I spent Weds/ Thurs in London, being a java expert. Bit of a blast from the past, but enjoyable. Which reminds me about the hour spent in Mothercare on Tues, ostensibly to get me some office standard maternity wear, but … Continue reading
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Poor neglected blog.
Again. It’s been a whirlwind week, which is prob why I haven’t found time to blog, so I’m not going to cover day by day. Tuesday was Forest school, which was excellent again. The rain threatened, but didn’t interfere until … Continue reading
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It’s time for the truth about spending cuts
The scale of Ireland’s financial crisis is chilling. A government panel of economic experts yesterday proposed huge spending cuts, including the axing of 5 per cent of all public sector jobs. Things are not quite that bad in Britain. But … Continue reading
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Autonomy and swine flu
Not directly connected For the rest of the week, Small amused himself on the computer mainly. Occasionally this was very irritating, depending on what website he chose to focus on, but most of the time, I could see pretty direct … Continue reading
Balloons, science and yet more putering.
Get the feeling that when Big gets back Small is going to go into serious computer withdrawal. Left to his own devices I think he would just educate himself entirely autonomously by exploring the internet until he understood it all. … Continue reading
Swimming and MMORPG
Small spent most of Tuesday expanding his understanding of RPGs. Every now and then he needed to regroup and spent some time back with CBeebies, mainly on tikkabilla He got lots out of fusion fall, and then eventually, I dragged … Continue reading
Just one child
On Monday, Tim took Big up to Yorkshire to spend some time with L. Obviously first of all we had to have traumas as she thought she’d packed the day before, but she’d forgotten things like cuddlies, and coats and … Continue reading
and so to the weekend
Saturday morning we re-tidied the children’s room, this time to the point that sufficient floor was found to hoover. Quite an achievement, although there was still the strip in between the beds covered in scraps of paper. Tim decided to … Continue reading
Friday out at friends
On Friday we went over to see Em. The kids took stuff to play magic school, including spare wands for E and R, and I took a bag of yarn and various patterns so I could start something else. In … Continue reading
Complaint to The UK Statistics Authority
Hi I am writing to express my concern at the statistics used to inform Graham Badman’s review of home education, released 11 June 2009. The review can be found here as a free download. and the particularly disturbing section, on … Continue reading
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Next, the under fives.
The introduction of a compulsory annual visit by a health visitor or trained advocate is suggested to ensure that the most at-risk children (about 68 per cent of cases involved children from birth to four) can express concerns to a … Continue reading
Finishing off tidying
Thurs appears to have become a bit of a blur to me, I really should blog immediately after the day or even in the evening. Hohum. I know there was more finishing off of tidying – the room is almost … Continue reading
A day of much tidying.
I spent Weds trying to persuade the children to tidy their room. Seems incredible to think that this took a whole day, but as Big spent the morning stropping in and out while Small played and watched Bod and then … Continue reading
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