Phyl's Blog

Anna is to start her free state nursery place the first week of January next year. As is the case in the UK free nursery places are offered ...

Today Léon went to school for the first time ever. The induction process began a few weeks ago with parental meetings which I have been atte...

We all have our preconceived notions of other cultures and on the whole I imagine many Brits think Scandinavians are probably less uptight, ...

Charlotte's French homework tonight was to draw a family tree. Obviously given our French background, this would have been possible for ...

I was pleased to find this article about Marcel's school in the press the other day. Hope they keep up the good work! :-)

Here's a photo of my little brother at the age of 12. Derek started high school as I entered my 5th year. He got double home economics...

My local nursery, which Léon attends, runs what it calls helper mornings . Every Wednesday since Charlotte was there and possibly longer, ea...

Readers of my blog will have heard me rant more than once about the standard of language teachers we use in our primary schools. Today Charl...

As I mentioned when Marcel started high school last month, dealing with a bilingual child isn't easy when the second language spoken by...

Tonight I noticed Marcel's new school was having an open night. Given it was due to last nearly 3 hours, I figured it might be interesti...

I know I'm getting to be a grumpy old cow but I really despair in language learning for English native speakers - it's like we haven...

One problem with having a bilingual child arises when the second language the child speaks happens to be the most common foreign language ta...

What are they gibbering about? Here is a draft proposal for a very radical new way to approach higher education .... eh???? Except it is the...

A new dilemma of this recession struck me the other day. The last (tiny by comparison) recession took place at the end of the 80s and wasn...

Since starting Hazeldene nursery on his third birthday, Léon has been more than happy, always running in without a backwards glance. It seem...

It suddenly struck me the other day that this economic crisis will be interesting to watch from a higher education perspective. Already lec...

Dunce Originally uploaded by Drumaboy So because kids are too badly educated to write something intelligible, the solution is to not make th...

No sooner do I praise the education my kids are receiving and the school goes and gives them something I have to complain about! Typical! M...

Occasionally my kids watch Are you smarter than a 10 year old, another piece Noel Edmonds drivel. I have actually sat down and watched this...

Léon was 3 on Monday which means he now qualifies for a free nursery place. Some councils still make kids wait till the first day of the ne...