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"Covid: Home-education numbers rise by 75%"
New BBC research shows the number of children registering for home education has risen by 75% in the first part of the school year. In north-west England this is a 92% increase on the previous two-year average.
While some parents made this decision for health reasons, others felt that pandemic simply gave them the final push they needed. Read the BBC article here.
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3 Word Lists for July
For this month’s word lists, we looked at The Dirty 30 (part 1 and part 2), Prefixes: p...
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Our July Word for Wednesday theme is flowers.
The word flower entered English around 1200 as ‘flour’ (with spelling variants including ‘flur’, ‘flor’, ‘floer’, ‘flor’, ‘floyer’, and ‘flowre’). It comes from the Old French ‘flor’, from the Latin ‘florem’. The word was used in reference to both blooms and grain until the late fourteenth century, after which the spellings ‘flower’ and ‘flour’ were used to differentiate between the two.
So far we’ve looked at the words delphinium, lily&nb...
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Our July Word for Wednesday theme is flowers.
The word flower entered English around 1200 as ‘flour’ (with spelling variants including ‘flur’, ‘flor’, ‘floer’, ‘flor’, ‘floyer’, and ‘flowre’). It comes from the Old French ‘flor’, from the Latin ‘florem’. The word was used in reference to both blooms and grain until the late fourteenth century, after which the spellings ‘flower’ and ‘flour’ were used to differentiate between the two.
So far we’ve looked at the words delphinium and lily. This wee...
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Our July Word for Wednesday theme is flowers.
The word flower entered English around 1200 as ‘flour’ (with spelling variants including ‘flur’, ‘flor’, ‘floer’, ‘flor’, ‘floyer’, and ‘flowre’). It comes from the Old French ‘flor’, from the Latin ‘florem’. The word was used in reference to both blooms and grain until the late fourteenth century, after which the spellings ‘flower’ and ‘flour’ were used to differentiate between the two.
Last week we looked at the word delphinium. Today’s flower is ...
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