Family Affairs

TEMPORARY CALM RETURNS

Such a relief. The last three mornings have been blissful. My 8 year old is no longer distressed about going to school. On Friday last week I was nearly in tears myself. I took him in to talk to his teacher and he refused to go into the classroom because he [...]

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END OF TERM

It’s the last day of school for my teenage son today. He breaks up at 10.30am. How ridiculous. Why bother? He tells me it’s because if the school doesn’t add those extra hours it would be categorised as a leisure centre rather than a school. Surely that can’t be true? My [...]

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SPORTS DAY

‘Tis the season to find yourself in a frenzy of end of term activity. Particularly if, like me, you have a child just about to leave primary school. There have been end of year drinks, end of year parties, end of year productions, end of year trips to Chessington Zoo, end of year [...]

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