At the start of March, I watched my Facebook feed fill with exciting announcements. Each one stating that their child has got the secondary school placement that they wanted. I congratulated my friends thinking I was grateful that was not a step we have to take this year. There is enough going on without worrying […]
Well, March was the month that everything changed! As a family, we had been watching the spread of the coronavirus since January. March was going to be the month to celebrate my 40th birthday in Disneyland Pairs. Day by day we watched as Disneyland Paris started slowing everything down as France went into lockdown. We
Last week, like the rest of the UK, we started our home schooling journey. This was never a path I expected us to be walking but now we can add the role of teacher to our long list. When I wrote about the upcoming school closures we had every intention of sending Ethan into school
As I expected the government announced school closures this week. I think this announcement came on Wednesday night. The day I posted about all of the cancellations that have happened so far because of the virus. There was confusion around the announcement at first. Many families were trying to work out who was classed as
With the new school year starting for us today, Ethan is starting his education journey in year five. I thought we should say goodbye to year four. A school year that has been very good for Ethan. In this post, I share the highlights of his year. As with year three, the school swimming lessons
