Month: May 2016
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Review of Essential Skills Advantage
Over the past few weeks, A7 and B5 have had the pleasure of using the Complete Home Learning Suite from Essential Skills Advantage. A supplementary curriculum for elementary children, Essential Skills Advantage offers over 14,000 online lessons. Each lesson is carefully crafted to build the child’s skill in that area. The Complete Learning Suite offers lessons in five […]
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Interview with C13
How have you felt about this year? I have loved this year. I was particularly enlightening because I found out last summer during our Shakespeare summer that I love to perform and this is becoming one of my passions. What have you learnt about yourself this year? I have discovered that I can do […]
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Interview with L13
How have you felt about this year? It has been fun, relaxing, stress free, easy but exhausting; I would say, for me, pretty much one of the best years of school so far What have you learnt about yourself this year? If I can put my mind to drawing I can produce some pretty good […]
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Interview with Thomas, aged 14
How have you felt about this year? It has been fast, busy, tiring at times, productive, eye-opening and rewarding. And I guess exciting because I have found a love of music I didn’t know I had. What have you learnt about yourself this year? I am capable of a lot if I put my mind […]
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Precious Moments
Last week began with a pink piggy party! Nik’s son is mad about pigs and as it was his 12th birthday coming up we decided to celebrate in pink piggy style! I wasn’t entirely sure how a 12-year-old boy would react to such an onslaught of pink, but I needn’t have worried, he loved it […]
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From a Tiny Acorn Mighty Oaks Grow
A week or so ago I was in the kitchen creating some sedimentary rock with bones buried or half buried inside (like you do). In order to create one of the layers I needed to mix some earth with the plaster. I popped outside to find some and came across a pot with some lovely […]
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Review of Science Shepherd
As you all know, my seven-year old daughter wants to be a scientist when she grows up. She really does love all things science, so when we were given the opportunity to review the Introductory Science program from Science Shepherd, I jumped at the chance! A7 and I have been enjoying their daily lessons ever […]
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Jane Austen’s House
I have been meaning to post this for ages. We visited Jane Austen’s house during our staycation. Even the boys enjoyed this day out, although that may have been because we ended the trip at a quaint village restaurant for a huge feed! So without further ado…. The surrounding countryside: The house from a distance: […]
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A Place to Dream
Last Thursday our shed was built at the bottom of our garden. It took a little under two hours. As I admired it, I pondered the thought that I had perhaps escalated its size to incorporate eight or nine floors/levels. In my head this shed was going to be the answer to all my space […]
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Seasons of Joy: Crocheting and Wobbling through the Woods!
This week has been full of endings and beginnings; much sadness and much happiness. I am reminded than whenever God shuts a door, he will often open a window. And so this week has been a week of shut doors and open windows, and once again I am reminded of how blessed I am to […]