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My parents' night apology

By Sally Brown, early years curriculum support tutor for Norfolk Adult Education I'm sorry my children haven't done their homework this week. But on Monday they debated whether vegetable soup was a drink or a food. Both gave valid reasons for their opinion; one took the mechanical approach of food being something you chew, the other sided with chemistry on the grounds that soup still had the chemical properties of a food. On Tuesday my son climbed a tree. He wants to be a writer and needed to know what it was like from the top.

On Tuesday my son climbed a tree. He wants to be a writer and needed to know what it was like from the top.

On Wednesday the children worked out the best way to set up two blankets as a tent. On Thursday they decided to raise money for their holiday fund, so they figured out how many days they needed to make their beds at 20p a go.

On Friday they walked in the woods, where they took apart sycamore seeds and collected lots of shiny conkers. On Saturday morning my daughter went trampolining and my son took his books back to the library. That afternoon they played their special game of Scrabble where they invent names for characters they're going to write a book about.

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