Author: Jax Blunt
Inscape by Louise Carey
Inscape by Louise Carey publishes on 21st January. Available from bookshop (affiliate) and other booksellers. Copy supplied free for the purpose of review. Warning: use of this gate will take you outside of the InTech corporate zone. Different community guidelines may apply, and you may be asked to sign a separate end-user license agreement. Do…
Home education in a pandemic – where we’re at.
It’s not the same as home education outside of a pandemic. Which is only to be expected. But things I’ve learnt over the years of home educating 4 children are still coming in handy. Things like if something doesn’t work, change it. So we’re flexing a lot, dropping things that don’t work for us, and…
Habits and patterns
I don’t know how easy other people find it to get into habits. With me there’s a constant balancing act of trying to build a pattern of behaviour without getting trapped into that pattern. So if I get back into daily blogging, that will become a challenge that won’t make life easier, so it’s almost…
Saturday snippets 16 January 2021
{remembering} on this day, 21 years ago, I became a parent for the first time. Today is the first birthday with that offspring not here, but we zoomed together to make cinnamon buns, and had breakfast with her sitting on a screen at the table. {playing} my zombie game. I play one of these settlement…
The great pokemon crochet project
For reasons, I need a creative project. I would like said project to be of interest to my family. I believe I have found my project. We are writing a list of pokemon we believe will be easy to crochet, then I will design patterns and crochet them. I have ordered a pack of yarns…
Transcript of interview with MP Robert Halfon, chair of education select committee on BBC radio 4 today show 16th November
Today program available for next couple of weeks here First part here Interviewer: All right then, Cllr Watts, thank you. Let’s talk to Robert Halfon MP, chair of the education select committee, morning to you. RH: Good morning, hello there. I: You’ve started an inquiry haven’t you, into home schooling, so I imagine you don’t…
Transcript of interview with Cllr Richard Watts on BBC Radio 4 Today show, 16th November. Topic – increase in number of home educated children.
I will point out, before we start, that this has been done by me playing and typing, playing and typing etc etc. There may be transcription errors where I’ve misheard something, or mistyped something. You can listen to the show yourself at the moment here, segment starts 2 hr 33 minutes in. I didn’t catch…
On being heard.
Today I was listened to by an audiologist. This isn’t a first for me – I’ve been to many audiology appointments over the course of my life, starting at around the age of 5 when my teachers accused me of not paying attention in class, and I said I couldn’t hear, and they said of…
BBC micro:bit from PiHut – a great #HomeEducation resource
Disclosure: The product was provided free for review. It’s all about tech these days, and while knowing how to use it is one thing, knowing how to program it is a whole other aspect. I admit to having a slight head start in this area, as an ex programmer, but the way I learnt to…
Thingamanose by Lynne Hudson
Reviewed by Tigerboy. It was really funny and I liked the end. Some of the rhyming is really good. I really like the illustrations, I saw new things in them each time I read it. From the blurb THINGAMANOSE is published in a fun and original format, a much longer picture book, that bridges the…
