Family Natters

Annie has a clicky hip.  My sister-in-law was the one to pick up on it, then the paediatrician confirmed it with a simple systematic test in which Annie lay on her back with all bottom clothes off and had her hips maneovered.
The doctor asked if there was a family history of clicky hips and referred […]

This Mothers Day card craft and activity idea is suitable for FS1/ FS2, and younger children can colour in the tea pot, help stick it on to the card and make a scribble for their name.
Children can sing the action rhyme I’m a little teapot and talk about what their mums do for them all […]

Annie wasn’t born with a strawberry (hemangioma) birthmark, but about 4 days afterwards a small pink patch formed under her chin.  I thought at first her babygrow was irritating her chin, but it just got bigger, redder and raised.  The doctor thought it would disappear  except for some silvery after-marks, by around her first birthday […]

If you need ideas for a St Valentine’s Day lesson plan suitable for KS1 and KS2, why not consider telling the children the following history/ story of  St Valentine then ask them to rewrite it as if they were there:

ask the children what they understand by valentines day or St  Valentine
explain they need to listen carefully […]

The photo shows an idea for a Valentines card Foundation and KS1 children can make.  The cutting and sticking part exercise fine motor skills.  The heart is made out of shiney foil decorated with sequins.  Older children can produce the greetings using a computer and add extra sentences along the lines of “You are my […]

This week I’ve been stalked by the rugby trophy James won on Saturday and which he carries from room to room in the house, he’s so delighted with it.  When I’m cooking its on the kitchen counter, when we’re eating its on the table and when I woke up this morning the darned thing was […]