Issue 7 — SONSHINE

Kirstie introduces this Issue – all about school, and picks a few top articles

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Graham André on No More Boys and Girls...?

Teacher Graham André tells Kirstie Beaven about his experience of taking part in a BBC documentary on gendered behaviour in school.

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Your Views: Starting School

With #BackToSchool trending on all the social media platforms, we asked you for your top tips on starting school. So much good advice as usual from our social media followers and our Parent Panel.

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Peer Pressure

Katharine Bosman takes a look at peer pressure and explores how she deals with it, in all its guises.

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Lifting Limits: Challenging Stereotypes in Schools, for Everyone

Social enterprise Lifting Limits is challenging gender stereotypes in and through education. Olivia Dickinson explains what they do and what they’re learning.

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5 things to ask your teacher about gender equality

Some of the most important role models for children are their school teachers. Kirstie Beaven has some questions you can ask about your school’s approach to gender equality.

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Doing As They’re Told

English Lead teacher Marianne Le Rossignol wonders if the much discussed language attainment gap for boys has more to do with us than them…

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How to Choose a School for Your Kids

Teacher Alex Mees gives us his tips on how to really pick a secondary school for your children. (Spoilers: it’s not about the grades.)

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Boys and Reading - the gender gap

In a revisit from Issue 4, Kirstie Beaven takes a look at the myths and realities around boys and reading

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After School Suppers: Quick recipes to avoid tantrums

The Scandi Cook, Sophie Stensrud, gives you four recipes for meals you can make in 20 minutes, to avoid the after-school hangry tantrum...

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Dinner Decisions: Aloo Gobhi

Food entrepreneur Anshu Ahuja struggles with the dinnertime rush just like the rest of us. She shares a failsafe recipe for a delicious family dinner.

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An Oft-Overlooked Fact, or Starting School at the Right Time

Alex Mees shares something you might not know about how school in the UK works…

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Girls’ Club

Amanda Maister reflects on what school taught her, and what life has taught her about school.

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Book review: The Book You Wish Your Parents had Read... by Philippa Perry

Abigail Youngman reviews the parenting book everyone’s been talking about this summer.

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School Dinners… and Playground Winners

Lumpy mashed potato, overboiled carrots and yucky rice pudding. Illustrator Lucy Noakes reminisces about the highs and lows of 1990s primary school food…

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Issue 7: School