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#Project52 2024 week 13

Well, it’s the end of an era. Zach has completed Beavers, just like Matthew and Anya before him. A big deal for him, sad to be leaving but excited to be going up to Cubs. Also a big deal for me as Beavers has been such a big part of our lives, every Friday night […]

One True Loves, by Taylor Jenkins Reid (audiobook read by Julia Whelan)

Emma marries her childhood sweetheart Jesse and they embark on their life together, following their dreams and encouraging each other. Jesse heads off on an expedition by helicopter but doesn’t come home after a fatal crash. Emma re-evaluates her life and slowly learns to live again. She is even brave enough to fall in love […]

Murder in Moscow, by Kelly Oliver

Fiona Figg follows her heart and the dastardly Fredrick Fredricks to Russia where she is quickly arrested by the Cheka (secret police). Can Kitty save her? Murder in Moscow is the 5th book in the Fiona Figg and Kitty Lane series of cosy spy and murder mysteries set during WW1. Despite her doubts, Fiona travels […]

Garden Girl by Renny DeGroot (audiobook)

A discovery of bones is revealed to be a missing young woman. Sarah was assumed to have run away but now a murder investigation is launched, led by Gordie MacLean and his new partner. Then another body is found… Garden Girl is a police procedural novel set in Canada. Gordie uncovers an unhappy background to […]

How to help your Year 6 with the transition to secondary school

Well, we’re about to enter the final week of the Spring Term so the countdown has really started! I can’t believe we are almost two thirds of the way through the school year, but we are!   So we have one term left to prepare our big littleones for secondary school… Anya is lucky in […]