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Laughter and having fun are powerful tools for pupil achievement and well-being
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This pandemic involves pivoting, not only for businesses, but for family arrangements too. As we inch closer to Christmas, it’s becoming clear that the festive period will also be different this year.
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Instead of all shelling out for Covid-safe Christmas activities, let’s take the festivities back to their roots and celebrate what we can do together, not mourn what we cannot. Here are some ideas…
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These uncertain times have seen an unprecedented demand for private maths tuition. But the explosive growth of the private tutoring market has fundamental cause, which predates the Covid-19 pandemic.
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The move to teaching Performing Arts online is immense. Everything we stand for: social skills, trust, teamwork, touch – one of the most critical senses a human possesses and craves – all ‘virtually’ impossible.
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Opening primary schools to students sends them to the front lines of a pandemic and it is irresponsible. Thorough research has to be undertaken on the safest ways to return to the classroom.
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Reader’s Diary: Paternity leave under quarantine with a 10 month old baby. How hard could it be?
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What are the best ways to support your partner through the birth? Some personal observations on what dads can do to help before, during and after labour.
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It has become something of a given that we should be expected to find ways to occupy our children, to find something for us/grandparents to do so the children aren’t at any time in the least bit, well, bored.
But boredom isn’t necessarily a curse for the young. In fact it is a force for good, for creativity, and a building block for young imaginations.
For parents of children with autism, the best thing they could hope for when starting their journey is a friendly and somehow thoroughly knowledgeable voice which can give them advice and guidance. Now, such a voice exists in book form. Written by a local mum of twins with autism, Debby Elley, “15 things they forgot to tell you about autism” is a practical and gently humorous look at raising children with autism.
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Ahead of Holocaust Memorial Day the pupils at The Manchester Grammar School were privileged to hear from a husband and wife from Prestwich who survived the atrocities of the Holocaust.
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