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You would expect to find a captain and sailors on board a warship at sea, but what about a cat or a dog, or even a pig! This February half term (Saturday 19 to Sunday 27 February) at Imperial War Museum North in Manchester find out how some furry friends joined the sailors aboard ships and submarines. Learn . . . → Read More: Animals at War stories feature in Half Term Exhibition at Imperial War Museum North  When the time comes for your child to choose a university and course of higher education, many universities will probably be tempting you with their ivory towers. Promises of how their excellent educational tracks can enable your child to embark on a wonderful future with excellent career options are probably bombarding you . . . → Read More: Rising Tuition Fees and the Case for a Gap Year Here’s a day out idea for all the family. The National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park, an independent charity, houses the largest collection of functional historic computers in Europe, including a rebuilt Colossus, the world’s first electronic programmable computer. The Museum complements the Bletchley Park Trust’s story of code breaking up to the Colossus and allows visitors . . . → Read More: The National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park – Day Out Idea This been provided by BullGuard Internet Security who provide an all in one antivirus and internet security solution. To keep your child safe when they go online, there are various steps that you can take. Some of these are things you can do to stop your child from having access to things you do not wish them . . . → Read More: Keeping Your Child Safe on the Internet If your children are about to embark on exam revision, chances are stress levels in the household are rising. Whether you’re worried that they’re unprepared or they’re fretting because they simply don’t know where to start, the run up to exams and coursework preparation can massively stressful for pupils and parents alike. From pupils that keep their revision . . . → Read More: Dick and Dom help out with some exam revision advice New Ofcom research published today suggests that one quarter of children aged 8-12 who use the internet at home say they have a profile on Facebook, Bebo or MySpace. All of these social networking sites have a minimum user age of 13. However the research, published in Ofcom’s annual Children’s Media Literacy Audit, suggests that 83 . . . → Read More: Under age use of Social Networking sites is rife according to Ofcom research Having children is certainly an expensive business. Young families usually have to cope with owning one of their first properties along with maintaining the child’s welfare, and as they grow older this can get a whole lot trickier. Not only have you got to think of how to spend money to keep your child happy, there’s . . . → Read More: Funding Your Child’s Further Education Following a year long quest, today 22 children are representing Britain’s 4 million schoolchildren to present their manifesto for a greener Britain to MPs. A group of bright young children from across the UK will set out their plan at meetings with Ed Miliband, Secretary Of State For Energy and Climate Change and Greg Barker, Shadow . . . → Read More: School children leading the way on the environment This is the fourth film in this series to raise awareness about alcohol drinking with teenagers. This ‘Behind the Scenes’ video shows the shooting of Comedian Bill Bailey’s film for the “Alcohol. It’s No Joke” campaign. Bill Bailey’s film talks about growing up and attitudes shared by friends and family, It talks about how drunken behavior can . . . → Read More: Bill Bailey shows the not-so-funny-side of drinking Despite Kirsty Young’s recent statements in the press about pushy parents sending their tiny tots to Mandarin and violin lessons being wrong, exposing your child to a foreign language from a young age DOES make it far easier for them to learn new languages in later life.
And being bi-lingual or multi-lingual is hugely beneficial. . . . → Read More: Speekee Spanish learning programme gets the young speaking Spanish |
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