What are free schools?
The Conservative government had pledged to open 500 new free schools over the next 5 years. This is a great new policy as it will create 270,000 additional school places [ . . . ]
Month: March 2016
A rise in school translators
The news this week reports on an alarming increase in special teaching assistants to translate for Eastern European children. Despite the budget cuts, the staff are paid up to £65 [ . . . ]
Children from Syria
I’m sure you’ve seen the hundreds of news stories surrounding Syrian refugees. This week, this picture drew my attention. A poor mother bathing her baby over a puddle in the [ . . . ]
Helen Downie’s amazing artwork
Now-a-days, the phrase ‘Instagram sensation’ describes a lot of people who have become famous due to Instagram and the likes of Facebook & Twitter. The blog-sphere is blowing up, literally, [ . . . ]
LISTS
Everyone writes lists – well I do! Regardless of how many phones, tablets or computers we have, a written list seems to be the essential tool for the brain to [ . . . ]
Enid Blyton’s famous five
My favourite books for children are The Famous Five. I read them myself as a child and encouraged my son to read them. They became my friends and I joined [ . . . ]
Mother’s Day
We can criticise the commercial aspect of Mother’s day and the card shops / flower shops who make money out of it but I think it’s wonderful. It is a [ . . . ]
Brit Awards
What a night for Adele. I was delighted, she is my favourite singer, high up there with Whitney Houston and Amy Winehouse (both sadly no longer with us). She’s back [ . . . ]
Child sexual abuse now an epidemic.
The tremendous increase in child sexual abuse is overwhelming. In the UK alone, the police spend about one billion pounds a year tackling over 70,000 cases of child sex offences. [ . . . ]
Eating Disorders
We often hear about eating disorders in the news, and frankly I find them alarming! Having read up on the matter, I think we should start addressing it much earlier [ . . . ]