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Diary of a Parent: Don’t you know what a split digraph is mummy?

Do you know what a split digraph is? Our parent diarist is worried that a love of reading for pleasure is being put at risk by a ‘grammar-only’ approach to literacy...

Bedtimes have always taken on a similar pattern in this house and one that is much-loved by us all. It’s a time for reading and story-telling and, lately, of finding out what’s going on in our child’s life when she’s not at home.

It is usually when tucked up in the comfort of her own bed that our daughter tells us about anything that is worrying her, what happened in school that day and importantly – to her – which of her classmates got perilously close to the red light on the behaviour “traffic light” system, and so may miss out on “golden time” at the end of the week.

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