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.
17 things you need to know about primary school fêtes
The summer fete is a highlight in every primary school's calendar, but beware the teddy stall...
1. You'll spend hours clearing all the unwanted birthday presents, unloved teddies and outgrown toys out of your understairs cupboard to donate to the toy stall, only for your child to come home with an ever larger pile of 'treasure.'
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2. On the day of the fete, you're a complete embarrassment to your Key Stage 2 child – until they run out of money, at which point suddenly they love you more than anyone else in the whole wide world.
3. The fete will inevitably coincide with a major sporting event that rules out 99.5 per cent of fathers from manning the stalls.
4. You quickly learn that face painting and Mr Whippy ice creams really don't mix. Although the combination does make for some pretty amazing technicolour bathwater...
5. You find yourself drawn as if by magnetism to the Pimm's stall, but you can't quite get over the fact that drinking on school premises feels all wrong.
6. Cake stall economics just don't add up; you spend a tenner on ingredients, and a whole day baking your specialities, and then pay to buy your own cakes back again.
7. You think you've been well organised in taking a trip to the cash machine beforehand, but end up running a complex book of IOUs because none of the stalls have change for your £20 note.
8. You covet the rather nice looking bottle of bubbly on the tombola, but end up winning a bottle of fluorescent cherryade and a box of out-of-date chocolates.
9. Sunny day? You decide to wear your white linen trousers to the fete, but instead of looking like a picture of summery elegance, you accidentally sit on your child's leftover, ketchup-slathered hotdog.
10. Beware the 'adopt a teddy' stall. See that life-size neon green monstrosity with suspiciously matted fur? It's coming home with you...
13. There is no competition more ferocious than the teachers versus parents tug-of-war.
14. Your child becomes all coy and giggly when they see their teacher running a stall. Miss, at school, on a Saturday, wearing jeans? It contravenes the natural order of the universe.
15. Organising the rota for your class's stall requires nerves of steel, endless patience, superior timetabling skills and a Masters degree in Diplomatic Relations. And why doesn't anyone ever volunteer for the tidying up slot?
16. However much money you take to the fete, it will never be enough.
17. Three weeks after the event, the raffle tickets your child brought home to sell are discovered, slightly dog-eared, at the bottom of their school bag.
