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Free and cheap home education resources for learning coding.
Post contains affiliate links. Computer science or coding is one of the subjects that has loads of free and cheap home education resources available. I am pretty lucky when it comes to computing in that I’m an experienced and qualified programmer/ developer and I’ve enjoyed dragging coding into the kids’ lives over the years. We’ve…
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Getting started with home education in the UK.
If your child is in school, you need to know your rights around deregistration. If not, you can skip on down to the getting going with home education section. Deregistration – The Legal Stuff The legalities around Home Education in the UK are different from country to country, as education is one of the things…
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Runes of Battle by G.N. Gudgion
Adelais is on the run. And the kingdom of Galmandie has never been more dangerous. In every town square, people whisper of a girl who brought down lightning on her enemies. The king has placed a huge price on Adelais’s head and sent troops to hunt her down. Adelais flees high into the mountains. But…
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The Playful Path to Development: Encouraging Growth through Outdoor Toys in Learning
Introduction: The Unending Joy of Play Children’s play is a universe of exploration, discovery, and learning. It’s a joyous journey that contributes significantly to their cognitive, physical, social, and emotional growth. The potential of outdoor play is vast and can be maximised with playful aids like a trampoline or a mud kitchen, transforming our gardens…
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Twenty years a blogger
Twenty years, on and off, recently more off than on, but still here, still writing. We’ve been through a lot in the last couple of decades. Added 3 children to the family (Big is older than the blog!), moved house a couple or three times, changed jobs, lost jobs, worked from home, not worked, home…
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Neurodivergence on page and screen – Like a Curse and A Kind of Spark from Elle McNicoll
Although Smallest and Tigerboy are now 13 and 11, I still read to them every night. It’s a really nice way to round off the day, and we’ve enjoyed a lot of different books that way. Recently we read Like a Curse, the sequel to Like a Charm by Elle McNicoll from the pioneering KnightsOf.…
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Day two of learning to code with Scratch and Tigerboy.
Yesterday we got started on working our way through a Scratch tutorial book I picked up from the local library for sale shelf, How to code in 10 easy lessons. Today we’ve written a buzzer game. You use the arrow keys to turn your arrow around, and the space key to move. In mine anyway:…
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Back to making it up
For a variety of reasons, my job as a technical writer at a games studio is coming to an end. I’m on garden leave just now – they’ve picked up my tech, and I’ve a couple weeks to get my act together. I am a little in shock – it all ended very quickly, and…
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Wolfsong by T J Klune
I don’t know how this is my first T J Klune book. It certainly won’t be my last. One point though, set aside some time, if you can, this is a hefty tome, and if you’re anything like me, you’re going to want to devour it. Yes, there are werewolves and magic. There’s romance and…
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Reinvention
Disclosure: collaborative post Over the last year and a half, I’ve been to-ing and fro-ing to a whole bunch of medical professionals, starting with the GP, and taking in physios, rheumatologists, an orthopaedic surgeon and most recently, an occupational therapist in the hand therapy team. I’ve had xrays, blood tests, an ultrasound, nerve conduction studies…