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With Ofsted making a major push on attendance, the NHS is offering guidance for when children should be sent to school. Obviously there have been lots of fears about Covid in recent years and I think parents are more concerned about sending kids in when they feel under the weather. It is a really difficult […]

Day 353: it’s the weekend and officially the Christmas holidays! Zach is feeling better and we’re excited about the next couple of weeks. Dog aren’t that excited though… Day 354-356: scrap any enthusiasm. I started vomiting at 1am on Sunday and didn’t stop until 11pm Tuesday. No photos as I’m sure you wouldn’t have wanted […]

After our disasterous half term with the children’s tummy bug, it’s been back to exams this week and loads of the students are feeling poorly. We have got through boxes and boxes of tissues this week as hayfever and summer colds seems to have gripped Year 11. There have also been other medical emergencies including […]

Tummy bugs are not just a winter problem, as my family found out this week! Did you know that vomiting usually stops after 2 days but diarrhoea can last a week? If either lasts longer, then seek medical advice! The main danger to health comes from dehydration and those most at risk are the young […]

In the 1980s, author Roald Dahl reflected on the death of his daughter Olivia twenty years earlier. The open letter is quite devastating but the line that remains in my mind is : ‘It really is almost a crime to allow your child to go unimmunised’. It got me thinking: should we make it a […]