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Whether your little one is starting school for the first time, moving up to secondary school or just going into a new year, we have all the info you need, along with buying guides for uniforms, shoes and all those little extras on your shopping list.
To celebrate back to school season, we're running four exciting Twitter parties, where we'll be giving you top tips and inviting you to share experiences with other mums and dads.
Twitter party dates:
Friday 12th August, 4pm-5pm
During this party we'll be discussing back to school and starting school anxieties, with our writer, Liat Hughes Joshi, author of Raising Children, the Primary Years online to answer your questions and worries.
Friday 19th August, 4pm-5pm
This week Liat will be back online and we'll be talking all things uniform – what to buy, where to shop and what you really need with Liat's expert advice.
Friday 26th August, 4pm-5pm
Join us for school shoe shopping advice and recommendations from Start rite shoes. Tweet us your questions, experiences and nightmares of hitting the high street for school shoes.
Friday 2nd September, 4pm-5pm
This week is reserved for discussing the best thing about your children going back to school and the excitement surrounding the new term. Tweet us your thoughts about how you're feeling as the new school year approaches.
To get involved in our Twitter parties, follow us on Twitter (we're Parentdish_uk) and tweet us throughout each party using the hashtag #pdbacktoschool. We'd love to take your questions, hear your experiences and see your piccies of your school shopping.
One lucky follower who tweets us using #pdbacktoschool from each party will win a £100 John Lewis voucher to help with that all important school shopping.
Tweet #pdbacktoschool to take part in each Twitter party and be entered into the prize promotion to win £100 worth of John Lewis vouchers. If you wish to join the party, but not enter the competition, please include 'No Comp' in your tweet. Please do not include any personal details in your tweet, if you are selected as the winner, we will contact you via private message on Twitter using the Twitter ID you tweeted with. For full terms and conditions, please see below.
By entering this prize promotion, you accept and agree to be bound by the following terms and conditions:
1. This prize promotion is open to all UK residents (excluding Northern Ireland) aged 18 years or over except employees (and their families) of AOL (UK) Limited ("AOL") and any affiliates or subsidiary companies, as well as representatives or agents of AOL and anyone else who may be involved or connected with the prize promotion. Any entries submitted by agents or third parties will be invalid and will not be accepted by the Promoter.
2. You may enter this prize promotion by Tweeting us during one of the Twitter Parties running on http://twitter.com/#!/parentdish_uk using the hashtag #pdbacktoschool.
3. The Twitter parties will run on 12th August from 4pm-5pm, on 19th August from 4pm-5pm, on 26th August from 4pm-5pm and on 2nd September from 4pm-5pm (each a Twitter Party and together the Twitter Parties). Only tweets received during a Twitter Party will be entered into the prize promotion.
4. If you wish to take part in a Twitter Party but do not wish to be entered into the prize promotion running at the same time, please add "NO COMP" to your tweet.
5. Please do not put any personal information such as your telephone number, address or email in your tweet. If you are selected as a winner, we will contact you as outlined below and obtain details then of where we may send your prize.
6. There will be one winner for each Twitter Party. Each winner will win £100 voucher to spend at John Lewis.
7. The prize promotion closing for each Twitter Party is 5pm. (the "Closing Date") and any entries received after the Closing Date will not be accepted by the Promoter. For example, for the Twitter Party running on 12th August, the Closing Date is 5pm on that day, for the Twitter Party running on 19th August, the Closing Date is 5pm on that day, for the Twitter Party running on 26th August, the Closing Date is 5pm on that day and for the Twitter Party running on 2nd September, the Closing Date is 5pm on that day.
8. The winning entries will be selected at random after the Closing Date on 12th August, 19th August, 26th August and 2nd September and the winners will be notified on Twitter within seven days of the relevant Twitter Party. We will contact you via a private message on Twitter using the Twitter name you used to participate in the relevant Twitter Party.
9. If you are notified of a winning entry, you must confirm acceptance by both telephone and email to claim your prize. If you do not reply to confirm acceptance within 5 days of being notified as a winner, we may offer your prize to someone else
10. Only one entry per Twitter ID per Twitter Party is permitted. You may tweet as many times as you like during each Twitter Party, but your Twitter ID will only be entered once into the prize draw for that Twitter Party.
11. Submission of entries will not constitute proof of receipt and no responsibility will be accepted by the Promoter for entries or acceptances which the Promoter does not receive. The Promoter shall not be liable for any loss or corruption of data in transit. No responsibility will be accepted for entries or acceptances which are lost, delayed or damaged in the post or elsewhere. Illegible, incomplete, late or defaced entries will be disqualified.
12. The prizes must be taken as offered. No cash equivalent or other alternative prizes are available in whole or in part except as provided for in these terms and conditions.
13. All prizes are non-transferable and where prizes consist of tickets to events, all such tickets are non-refundable. The Promoter reserves the right to substitute prizes of an equivalent value should the prize(s) become unavailable for any reason. If any winner is not able for whatever reason to accept the prizes, then the Promoter reserves the right to award the prizes to another participant.
14. A list of winners' names and locations can be obtained by sending a SAE to the Promoter after 5th September 2011.
15. The winners agree to participate in any publicity or other such promotional activities which the Promoter may reasonably require in connection with the prize promotion and the Promoter shall have the right to use each winner's name, likeness, image, voice and biographical information for advertising and promotional purposes in connection with the prize promotion in all media without further notice and without the need to make any payment to any winner for such use.
16. The decision of the Promoter is final and binding and no correspondence will be entered into regarding the outcome of the prize promotion.
17. No purchase is necessary to enter this prize promotion.
18. Promoter: AOL (UK) Limited, Shropshire House, 11-20 Capper St, London, WC1E