“360 Xmas Tree Decorations” flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license
Silent Sunday⤴
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“360 Xmas Tree Decorations” flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license
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“Christmas Lights” flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license
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“O Christmas Tree” flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license
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Today is Stir-up Sunday, the day when families gather around stir their homemade Christmas pudding on the last Sunday before advent begins. I made mine yesterday, as it takes seven hours to steam and we take lunch over to my MiL on Sundays. It’s a Mrs Beeton recipe, and fingers crossed it tastes as good as it smells.
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Thinking about charms to put into this for a DS106 pudding. Here’s what I’m adding.
from Blair Minchin
It’s that time of year when many teachers, pupils and parents feel like they are crawling to the festive finish line, eager for a mince-pie-filled break from all things school related. Yet Christmas is a time jam packed with hidden learning opportunities, spanning every curricular area you can shake a figgy pudding at. Moreover, the … Continue reading “The Christmas Break?”
I’ve been asked about this sort of thing a few times now and not had an answer. It came to me on Friday, but I couldn’t test it at lunchtime as we had no internet in school.
I’ve played around with the idea this weekend and it works. Of course it could be a lot prettier.
Basically I’ve set up an Advent Calendar where you can click on doors to revel information. You can only see the content that has been published and the info is qued up in Scheduled posts (pages in this case).
Using the Draw Attention and my favourite Display Posts plugins. Here is the Demo: Advent Calendar – An Example Glow Blog for Christmas
Here is a gif.
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Christmas lunch – vege roast and all the trimmings for me, Niall, Niall’s mum and aunt Lesley. Served on mum and dad’s dinner service, reminding me of Christmasses past with family – busy days with everybody piled into mum and dad’s house a surfeit of food, noise and happiness. Today was quieter, but just as happy. Setting the table I felt so lucky for all we have: uur wine glasses were a wedding present from a friend, and the tablecloth was a gift from a student to Niall’s dad. The mats and cutlery were bought with money given to us when we married. So many memories, such good food, and such good company.
Now I am in my study relaxing. I have a new drawing book to inspire me, a new knitting book to tempt me, new pens to draw with, new notepads to write in.
And a cat who thinks it is time for food. She is right.
So, another school term has whizzed by. From all of us here, we wish you a wonderful Christmas.
We hope the festive break will give you a chance to celebrate, recharge your batteries and have lots of fun. But we know it’s not an easy time of year for everyone – dealing with family arguments, feeling like everyone else is having a ball when you just feel rubbish…. If you’re struggling this Christmas, remember that Childline are here for you. And if you have worries about school and think you may need support, our helpline will be back open on 4 January at 9am if you want to get in touch.
Looking ahead to next year?
For those of you with exams in January, check out some tips and handy revision tools from SQA here.
If you’ll be leaving school next year, your school should already have been supporting you to work out what you will do next. Find out how your school can help you get ready for the next big step here.
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from Christine McIntosh @ blethers
from Christine McIntosh @ blethers