Category Archives: Education

Apron

By Naomi | Published: 15/07/2011
Remember letting go of your mother’s apron strings? No, neither do I. But I guess at some point we all did. Unless we’re still living at home at 30 or 40 or (gulp) 50 of course…… As we go through life there seem to be lots of moments where we have the option of letting [...]
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Singularity

By Naomi | Published: 20/10/2009
There was a television programme on recently that followed a group of schoolchildren as they took part in a project to learn all about fireworks. Clearly this is an interesting subject for most children but what was fascinating was the fact that they used this single project to learn about a whole range of, what [...]
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School

By Naomi | Published: 24/09/2009
Choosing a first school for your child is hard and in the UK it’s verging on a lottery. You put down three choices and then wait to get an allocation, based on a whole raft of mysterious criteria. The temptation is to choose the nearest one that’s half decent and that you’ve got a really [...]
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