Articles Tagged: new term

School bags filled with £1000 of hi-tech kit

By Kelly Rose Bradford, Sep 1, 2011

Remember the days when you trudged off for the first day of term with nothing more than a packed lunch and a brand new geometry set?

What to wear for the school run - will you be preening for the first day back?

By Kelly Rose Bradford, Aug 31, 2011

So have you got your back-to-school togs all ready for next week? And we don't mean school uniforms!

I made a list and started calm school runs

By Heidi Scrimgeour, Aug 8, 2011

Last September I resolved to end the shout-fest that had become the school run, and after one too many post-9am return trips back to the house to fetch whatever he had forgotten I decided it was time to do something.

Why I dread buying children's shoes

By Tamsin Kelly, Aug 8, 2011

Recently a friend tweeted with that particular mixture of triumph and exhaustion brought on by shoe buying for children: 'Got school shoes and trainers. Need a gin'.

What teachers want to say to parents

By Liat Hughes Joshi, Aug 8, 2011

In the interests of enhancing parent-teacher relationships, we asked teachers what they wish they could tell us to make the job of teaching and looking after our children easier. Here's what they said...

School bag snoops: How to not get obsessed by your child's reading level

By Liat Hughes Joshi, Aug 8, 2011

It's one of the most loaded questions you can be asked at the school gate. It's not a demand to know your religious or political views. Nor is it about how much you earn or how old you are. Nope it's the seemingly innocuous: 'What reading level is he/she on?'

Back to school: Am I the only one who misses my children?

By Ursula Hirschkorn, Aug 8, 2011

It's that time of year again. Children up and down the land are being buttoned into stiff new school uniforms, slipping on shiny shoes, ready to be scuffed in the playground and parents are punching the air as they finally manage to offload their offspring back to school after six long weeks of summer holidays.

I can take my son to his first day of school

By Tamsin Kelly, Aug 8, 2011

Emily Carlisle, 34, has given up the demands and long hours culture of working as a public sector worker and embarked on her new job of full-time motherhood and freelance writing. Her goal for this momentous change was this September and being able to take her oldest son Josh to his first day at school.