TheSchoolRun.com closure date
As we informed you a few months ago, TheSchoolRun has had to make the difficult decision to close due to financial pressures and the company has now ceased trading. We had hoped to keep our content available through a partnership with another educational provider, but this provider has since withdrawn from the agreement.
As a result, we now have to permanently close TheSchoolRun.com. However, to give subscribers time to download any content they’d like to keep, we will keep the website open until 31st July 2025. After this date, the site will be taken down and there will be no further access to any resources. We strongly encourage you to download and save any resources you think you may want to use in the future.
In particular, we suggest downloading:
- Learning packs
- All the worksheets from the 11+ programme, if you are following this with your child
- Complete Learning Journey programmes (the packs below include all 40 worksheets for each programme)
You should already have received 16 primary school eBooks (worth £108.84) to download and keep. If you haven’t received these, please contact us at [email protected] before 31st July 2025, and we will send them to you.
We are very sorry that there is no way to continue offering access to resources and sincerely apologise for the inconvenience caused.
The importance of taking time to talk
We all want the best for our children – we want them to grow up into well adjusted adults who feel valued and respected. Our children also crave to be heard, listened to and not judged.
Our children generally want to talk to us when they fancy but for us parents it is often a matter of, “I’m busy, tell me later”; “Go and do something else and we’ll discuss it at dinnertime”; or “Very nice darling”, dismissing what they are saying to us.
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Some of the children I have seen don’t have parents that have the time to listen to them – some hardly see their parents, and I work with them on ways that the child can get the attention of their parent.
Finding time to talk
The best time to talk is during the day when you are both relaxed and not engrossed in making the dinner or juggling three jobs at once. Also find a time when you are not going to be interrupted by other children or anyone else. Find out what your child is doing and then make an appointment with them for when they have finished their activity so you have their attention 100 percent.
I often say to my oldest child, “When you have finished playing that game, could we please sit together so we can talk about your day?” If this is greeted by moans, which are fairly short-lived, I sell the benefits of our time together, boosting his self-esteem by telling him how wonderful he is and how proud I feel to be his mum. We sit and discuss ‘life’ and I help him with his thoughts.
From feedback from mums, they find the best time to do talk properly with their children is before school or before bed, both of which are times in the day when the ‘worry monster’ within the child rears its ugly head. The timing is crucial as it has to be when you feel your child is going to be responsive and a willing participant in your chat.
Successful talking
Take as long as your child needs and don’t rush them. Have your chat at the kitchen table or in your child bedroom. I find that a fifteen-minute chat can do the job but for a complex issue you would need to allow about half an hour.
Read more tips and advice from Naomi at www.thekidscoach.org.uk
