Tag Archives: Education

The Big Lad’s take on homework

The Big Lad’s weekly homework includes a list of words that he has to write out half a dozen times before using them in sentences. His most recent list included “portable” and “primrose”. His sentences?

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Links for the Big Lad’s P6/7 class

The Big Lad’s P6/7 class are studying crofting at the moment, so they’ve been looking at the blog to find out what we do around our croft. I’ve pulled together a few links to make it easier for them. Some of the selected pages describe what we do, others are collections of photographs of the [...]

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Making sausages

The boys may have thought they were in for a day of leisure when they discovered the snow had stopped them from going to school, but I soon put them right. As well as finishing the school work I gave them yesterday, they also found themselves lined for the educational chore of making sausages. As [...]

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Off to meet management expectations

The overnight temperature dropped to -13.2 C. The council have not ploughed our access road since the last snowfall. They haven’t gritted it for days. The road between our croft and the village has been ploughed, but is covered in compacted snow and ice.

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Scrooge and his money

The Big Lad as Scrooge in his school’s production of A Christmas Carol. He spent weeks rehearsing his lines, practising his delivery, and working out how Scrooge’s body language would work. It all paid off with a cracking performance at school this morning, although he had a few difficulties getting Scrooge’s fire to “light”. The [...]

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