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Important update from TheSchoolRun

For the past 13 years, TheSchoolRun has been run by a small team of mums working from home, dedicated to providing quality educational resources to primary school parents. Unfortunately, rising supplier costs and falling revenue have made it impossible for us to continue operating, and we’ve had to make the difficult decision to close. The good news: We’ve arranged for another educational provider to take over many of our resources. These will be hosted on a new portal, where the content will be updated and expanded to support your child’s learning.

What this means for subscribers:

  • Your subscription is still active, and for now, you can keep using the website as normal — just log in with your usual details to access all our articles and resources*.
  • In a few months, all resources will move to the new portal. You’ll continue to have access there until your subscription ends. We’ll send you full details nearer the time.
  • As a thank you for your support, we’ll also be sending you 16 primary school eBooks (worth £108.84) to download and keep.

A few changes to be aware of:

  • The Learning Journey weekly email has ended, but your child’s plan will still be updated on your dashboard each Monday. Just log in to see the recommended worksheets.
  • The 11+ weekly emails have now ended. We sent you all the remaining emails in the series at the end of March — please check your inbox (and spam folder) if you haven’t seen them. You can also follow the full programme here: 11+ Learning Journey.

If you have any questions, please contact us at [email protected]. Thank you for being part of our journey it’s been a privilege to support your family’s learning.

*If you need to reset your password, it will still work as usual. Please check your spam folder if the reset email doesn’t appear in your inbox.

Celebrate Father's Day without breaking the bank

Father and Daughter
Thinking of a great present for your father or carer can be stressful – you want to buy the best gift you can find, but that can prove to be very expensive! Check out our fantastic suggestions for cheap, easy Father's Day gifts that are also special, unique and heart-warming.

Father's Day doesn't need to be all about expensive gifts or big days out. In fact, your kids can spoil dad (or carer) rotten just by doing a few simple things at home.

Home-made Father's Day cards

You don't need to spend a small fortune at the card shop. Provide your children with plenty of craft materials, such as old magazines, card, paper, pens, stickers, strips of fabric, glitter, glue – anything with which they can make and decorate their own Father's Day card. It's a far more personal way to let Dad know how much he means to them, and it's much more fun too!

Tip: Stock up on card paper and you'll be able to make cards for every occasion throughout the year. 

 

colour card paper

Personalised mugs, t-shirts and caps

For a simple but lovely gift, you can buy plain white mugs, T-shirts or baseball caps on which your children could paint Father's Day messages.

Tip: You can get a box of six mugs for just £6.95 and look up creative ideas on YouTube. You can keep it really simple with some Sharpies or go as wild as you like...

Make a Father's Day scrapbook

Help your children make their dad or special carer a scrapbook full of their favourite things – photos, old ticket stubs from past days out, newspaper articles, pictures of places you've been together. Or why not make a memory box by decorating an old shoebox with pictures?

You'll probably have most of the supplies at home, but if you want to purchase a scrapbook and bits to go with it, you can find plenty of kits online and lots of helpful blogs about scrapbooking with kids. 

scrapbook kit​

Cook a meal on Father's Day

Get your mini-Jamie Olivers cooking up a storm by picking Dad's favourite recipe and preparing him a delicious and healthy home-cooked meal. Involve the kids in each step of the meal, from shopping for ingredients to preparing, cooking, and serving the meal. They can even set the table up and decorate it with placemats and napkins.

Put on a Father's Day show!

Most children enjoy taking to the stage, so get your kids to work on a little performance to celebrate Father's Day. It could be making up a song, a poem, a play, or a talent show – just let Dad put his feet up and enjoy the action!

Father's Day coupons

Make a coupon book and put a promise on each page of the book. Think of things that Dad/carer would appreciate: a big hug, a cup of tea, a lie-in, a cooked meal, no arguments between siblings for a whole day etc. Then he can choose to 'cash in' a coupon any time he likes! 

You can make this with card or paper, or you can get cheap, blank coupon books from Amazon. 

 

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