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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Tag Archives: Education
Ready for school!
30 June, 2009
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The face of modern schooling—for reasons of health and safety it is essential that all children turned out with sword, shield, helmet and armour. War horses are optional. Actually, the Wee ‘Un’s class won the school’s prize for best behaved class and earned themselves a fancy dress party. He simply had to go as a [...]
Read moreAnd if I don’t have a mobile?
30 March, 2009
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The boys’ school has sent a form home asking us to supply a mobile phone number so they can text us with regular messages. However, they don’t seem to have considered that there are still dinosaurs out there who don’t have mobile phones. I’m one of them.
Read morePaperwork and stories
11 March, 2009
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Today has been mental. Most of it has been taken up with preparing paperwork for the inspection tomorrow, checking that all the papers are in their correct files, correctly cross referenced and linked to the various “proofs”. I have files of feed labels, which need to be categorised by food type and then by date.
Read moreBig day for the Wee ‘Un
19 August, 2008
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The Wee ‘Un had a momentous day today—his first day in “big school”. He’s just started in P1 and, although he’s been attending the school nursery for the past year, this is the big event for him. In Scotland, children starting their first year at primary school do a couple of hours one day, nothing [...]
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