Time for another update. Where are we up to?

Well, Jessica is now in Year 5, and finding it all quite hard work. Mind you, that might be at least partly because she finally seems to have thrown herself into the activities available at school. So she is now doing rugby, gardening club, computer club. She's been shouted at for giggling in class and is finding the homework a bit of a struggle. History at the moment is the Victorians, and she's seemingly interested for the first time. So we took her to the Walker Art Gallery at the weekend to see some Victorian buildings and art.

Other than that, she's into a kid's social networking site called club penguin, along with one of her friends. This is helped by having a computer in her own room now, which allows her to play without getting in the way of everyone else.

So the new term has been difficult for Jessica. We're moving back to 5p's for good behaviour (Jessica's version of a star chart) and we'll see how we go.

Meanwhile Alex has started at Junior school. Despite all our concerns, it's gone really well. In fact, he's just been given the Headteacher's Award (the top award the school gives out each week).