What every parent needs to know before your first child starts school. Is your first child about to start school? Do you want to give your child the best start to their education & school life? Are you nervous about dealing with other parents & teachers? If youre worried about how to prepare your child
- & yourself
- for school for the first time The Starting School Survival Guide eases your worries & gives you all the gossip from the school gate telling you everything you need to know. Any idea what a number-line is? Nervous of being told off by the lunch box police? Its okay because Sarah Ebner author of The Times popular blog School Gate & mother of two is going to arm you with all the things people never tell you to prepare for when term time begins! Packed with tons of personal advice & tips from parents whove been through it themselves find out how to prepare yourself
- & your child
- for surviving the school system unscathed. From help with choosing & applying to the right school in the first place & preparing for your childs first day to dealing with head lice navigating school cliques (children as well as parents!) & interacting with teachers & other parents youll find out all the best ways to cope & more including: Preparing your child: when to teach them to read the perils of school uniform tips to help them learn Gossip at the gate: dealing with school gate mums the etiquette of birthday parties & negotiating friendships Education: helping with homework key stage exams & understanding the national curriculum Holidays: how many can you take holidays in term-time what to do with your child during the summer Problems at school: children with special needs coping with shyness what to do if your child is bullied or is the bully...) From classroom to playground & beyond the school gate this is essential reading for every parent entering the school system for the very first time (since you left school yourself).



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A highly successful general science course the enduring popularity of Starting Science stems from its built-in differentiation colourful straightforward style & its content-based approach. Key points include: specifically designed for use in mixed-ability classes; divided into units which are presented at three levels of difficulty; careful explanation of scientific concepts set in everyday contexts; & a range of questions for independent & class use. ...

The Starting Science books reinforce key skills & concepts required by the National curriculum for Science at Key Stage 1. Working with an adult children using this series will gain first-hand experience of scientific techniques such as observation exploration prediction & recording & evaluating evidence. Notes for teachers & parents provide details of the equipment & materials needed for the investigations. Starting Science Book 1 covers Attainment Target 3 Materials & their Properties including: recognising the properties of common materials (for example texture & appearance) identifying materials & sorting them according to similarities & differences describing ways in which some materials can be changed by heating & cooling or other processes knowing that certain processes are non-reversible & understanding the suitability of materials for different purposes (for example being waterproof). ...

Why is Faberge unique? What is champleve enamel? Why should emeralds be regarded with suspicion? Which jewels contain miniature coffins? Starting to Collect Antique Jewellery tracks the progress of jewellery designs from early times to the twentieth-century assisting the professional jeweller the collector & the student in making informed & balanced judgments upon scores of crucial topics
- from the setting of old gems to fakes & forgeries. This book is superbly illustrated with hundreds of colour photographs provided by auction houses dealers leading shops & private collectors. From Castellani to Cartier from hair combs to cameos Starting to Collect Antique Jewellery represents a key companion which is relevant readable & comprehensively informative.
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Joyce Meyer provides readers with a day-to-day guide for getting closer to God every morning of the year. Topics in this 365-day devotional include the keys to enjoying every single day balancing out extremes acting with discipline & self-control being happy living without fear & more. Readers should be inspired each morning with a resurgence of hope & resilience in life through these brief inspirational thoughts. ...

In 1989 the Berlin Wall fell; shortly afterwards the two Germanies reunited & East Germany ceased to exist. In a country where the headquarters of the secret police can become a museum literally overnight & one in 50 East Germans were informing on their countrymen & women there are a thousand stories just waiting to get out. Anna Funder tells extraordinary tales from the underbelly of the former East Germany
- she meets Miriam who as a 16-year-old might have started World War III visits the man who painted the line which became the Berlin Wall & gets drunk with the legendary Mik Jegger" of the East once declared by the authorities to his face to "no longer to exist". Written with wit & literary flair Stasiland provides a rivetting insight into life behind the wall."
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Editors Sean Wilsey & Matt Weiland have turned to 50 of the finest funniest & foremost writers in America to create a state by state celebration of their country: Jonathan Franzen on New York Louise Erdrich on North Dakota Dave Eggers on Illinois Ann Patchett on Tennessee Jhumpa Lahiri on Rhode Island
- the list goes on. At turns poignant & hysterical & uniformly insightful these fifty writers capture the beauty the kitsch the unexpected & the quintessential things that make America. There is something & someone in State by State for everyone. With a roster of bestsellers & award winners from Ann Patchett to Rick Moody to Myla Goldberg Wilsey & Weiland have culled the best of the best from the literary creme de la creme to write on something all Americans are interested in: our country.
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General Khrapov newly appointed Governor-General of Siberia & soon-to-be Minister of the Interior is murdered in his official saloon carriage on his way from St Petersburg to Moscow. The killer disguised as Fandorin leaves a knife thrust up to the hilt in his victims chest & escapes through the window of the carriage. Can Fandorin escape suspicion? A battle of wills & ideals revolutionaries & traditionalists & good versus evil. ...

Africa is forever on our TV screens but the bad-news stories (famine genocide corruption) massively outweigh the good (South Africa). Ever since the process of de-colonialisation began in the mid-1950s & arguably before the continent has appeared to be stuck in a process of irreversible decline. Constant war improper use of natural resources & misappropriation of revenues & aid monies contribute to an impression of a continent beyond hope. How did we get here? What if anything is to be done? Fully revised & updated & weaving together the key stories & characters of the last sixty years into a stunningly compelling & coherent narrative Martin Meredith has produced the definitive history of how European ideas of how to organise 10 000 different ethnic groups has led to what Tony Blair described as the 'scar on the conscience of the world'. Authoritative provocative & consistently fascinating this is the updated edition of the seminal book on one of the most important issues facing the West today. ...

The book behind major BBC2 series The Seventies" Dominic Sandbrook's " State of Emergency
- The Way We Were: Britain 1970-74" is
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