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?
Read moreLinks 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 [...]
Read moreScrooge 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 [...]
Read moreReady for school!
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 morePaperwork and stories
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.
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14 March, 2011


