Can my 16 to 19 year old get financial help in School or College ?

So my daughter passed her GCSE's and she is about to embark on her A levels ! But the cost of the text books, new clothes and field trips are quite high - so is there any help ?


What can 16 - 19 year olds get help with ?

"Schools, colleges and training providers have funds to help you if you’re studying or starting a full-time course from September 2011 and think you might struggle with the costs for your studies. For advice speak to student support services or your tutor.

Cleaning lunch boxes,socks and football boots- for going back to school - Part 2

Removing Odours from Lunch Boxes

Any container that holds food for extended periods of time will develop an odour Lunch boxes are no exception. Here are some steps to remove that “lunch box smell.” (Why is it that all lunchboxes smell of banana and yogurt?).

Back to school – how to make old uniform look new again

Sometimes school clothes that are looking a bit tired do not have to be thrown away but just need a little love and care to bring them back to life ready for a new school term.
Here a few tips that I thought may help us all to complete the mission of getting Kids back to school looking smart without it costing a fortune. Try out these cleaning tips...

Communicating with teenagers - By Guest Blogger Indu Khurana (Ms)

Communicating with teenagers

Teenagers are the beings that inhabit adolescence, and “adolescence” is the time gap or stage of development that each of us goes through in the transition point between childhood and adulthood.

It is a time of rapid and successive change: Physically as well as emotionally our systems seem to develop a mind of their own and to a degree become out of (our) control. It is often a time of conflict – with friends, parents, relatives, even ourselves. In many ways it is a time of not knowing, changing expectations, difficult feelings, not feeling understood by others, secrets, testing the boundaries, a desire for autonomy, an unreadiness for taking responsibility, and so many other contradictory things. It is a state of limbo, where we are neither one nor the other.

Top five free science experiments to try

When anyone says the word science it takes me back to the days of school, I think of boring lessons in with a professor talking about elements and formulas that I had no interest in...Well haven’t things changed – so many books and websites with cool experiments to do – try them they are so much fun. Here are my top five favourite for you to try too

1.       Ectoplasmic Gunk

In the book “Slimy Science and Awesome Experiments, by Susan Martineau - B Small Publishing”  it states that “one minute this gunge behaves like liquid, then it’s a solid” – so we tried it...

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The Law on children working

General notes

The main piece of Legislation on this area is the Children and Young Persons Act 1933, but some is determined by by-laws – so the advice around seems to be, if you are unsure, to consult your local authority.