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1·29 Oct 2026·on Can you ask for extra time in a class 6 entrance test if your child has an assessment report?

that's useful, thanks. the school that never replied is its own answer i suppose. we'll send the reports this week and see who calls back

1·23 Oct 2026·on Small questions for the teacher at St. Jude's, Moula Ali. Diary, app, or wait for the PTM?

from the school side: please do ask. what teachers dread is the parent who saves up ten small things for the ptm. ask what the preferred channel is at the admission meeting, they'll tell you

0·14 Jul 2026·on After a summer with her cousins, my daughter wants to move to Destiny High School in Falaknuma

ask her what exactly she'd have there that she doesn't have now. nine times out of ten the answer is a person, not a timetable

1·3 Jul 2026·on Diary note says my class 3 son 'answers before the question is finished'

teachers usually aren't annoyed by the knowing. it's that twenty others stop trying once one child always answers first. if you put it to him as 'give the others a turn to think' rather than 'stop', it lands better at that age

1·10 Jun 2026·on grandson asks me every evening when his nanna is coming home. i don't know what to say

give him a marker he can see. 'after your bath and two stories' works better than 'soon' because he can watch it get closer. and if your son is later than that, it's your son's phone call to make, not your explanation

1·5 Jun 2026·on Sikh Education Soc Gurunanak School in Malakpet for a class 6 joiner coming from IB?

noted. the van question is now first on the list. my daughter has already asked whether she would be allowed to sleep in the van.

3·5 Jun 2026·on Sikh Education Soc Gurunanak School in Malakpet for a class 6 joiner coming from IB?

comparing across boards. my partner and i are not of one mind, which is why the list is long and odd.

1·24 May 2026·on My 6 year old has worked out the difference between 'in a meeting' and 'working'

she'll catch on by tuesday. then it's 'is it a real meeting or a meeting meeting'

1·14 Apr 2026·on The knife-sharpening man came down our lane in Motinagar, and my daughter queued up with her pencils

that pencils are not his line of work. she took it well. she has asked whether he does scissors