Fran had her General Level Club Competition at gym today. She’s been much more relaxed about this one but did want to do well; we talked a lot about focusing and staying so through the competition. Fran tends to wander off, fidget and get distracted (and hungry!) and also tends to be last to go [...]

Fran and Amelie are really enjoying learning stitches at the moment. I’ve got a lot of time for this kind of practical life activity; we did loads of binca sewing when i was at school and it taught me to plan things, taught me creativity and patterns and planning and colours that suited each other. [...]

Science today; H did fab Chromatography with the children – i TA’d for the younger ones and was very impressed by the results from using M&Ms as part of science!

G did an excellent job of getting the kids to illustrate a story with percussion instruments and i was rather touched by the fact that the [...]

Fran and Maddy worked more on their art projects; slightly staggered by how much they’ve got into this actually but the concentrated research they’ve put in, effort on presentation and computing skills has impressed me. Both more interested in “finding out” and “writing up” than doing any art but it makes a nice change to [...]

We’re heading towards the end of “term” here and so finishing off odds and sods of chapters and projects. We’re away next week and have mostly Xmas stuff planned for after that, so finishing up for fresh new year starts is in order. I need to make some lists so we do most of the [...]

Since she has applied to join blogrings, i don’t think Zoe will mind me blogging her blog over at Le Ciel Rouge – plus she has written up my day for me!!! Go and say hello if you fancy doing so

I’m reasonably clever – and i went to a good school. The school professed to select girls from the top 5% of the pool of intelligence that sat the exam and turned out exam results that placed it within sight of the top of the league tables of the time. I got 4 good A [...]