The Learning Garden

06/08/2026

06/08/2026

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05/08/2026

05/08/2026

Do you know a child who struggles to understand their emotions? (Let’s be honest, we all do ourselves at times!)

I discovered these lovely cards last term — we talked through each one, then played “guess the emotion.”

Anyone else used these with success? Let me know how it goes if you try them.
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01/08/2026

I realised that don’t share testimonials and so I’m going right back to the early days with this abridged version from The Learning Garden’s very first tuition family. 🪴To see the full feedback or to leave a review of your own visit my fb page: reviews or https://g.page/r/CWDa0AqPGyZWEBM/review

24/07/2026

It all started out so well.

If you’d like a healthy (ish) summer sweet treat for all the family, I pinched this home-made lolly idea from Sara Davies. However, she makes it look so easy - I erm, don’t!

I adapted her fancy pistachio recipe. One, because I’d bought a humongous bag of blueberries from for a fiver yesterday - bargain 🫰 - and two, because I’d forgotten to buy pistachios. 😭

As I said, it started well… you’ll need: Greek yoghurt and honey 🍯 (or maple syrup) to sweeten, and your blueberries 🫐
Pop all together in a blender although I guess you could just mix. 🥣

I also added some chunks of 🍫 to one batch (dark of course to keep it super healthy 😉) and some whole 🫐 to the other.

I’d even ordered the right kind of ice lolly moulds from Amazon… so unlike me who’d usually find and adapt something totally inadequate!

That’s when it got messy… I think I maybe should have remembered the sticks and worked out how to add them first, so that will be my bonus top tip for you. (I didn’t share the messiest pics it was a whole lot worse!)

I’m going to freeze and coat in 🍫 later, will update! Let’s see if it ends well 🥶

Let me know if you try them!

23/07/2026

Some end of term spelling yesterday! Doesn’t feel like work when you’re having such fun playing a game and this is still one of my favourites. The students seem to enjoy it too 😉 Successful outcomes: full marks all round! ✅ 💯 🪴

17/07/2026

Football, place value, rounding, word problems, bar models and cute sparkly ducks… just another fun week at the office! 🪴

06/07/2026

Well! I leave my office to go and grab some lunch and come back to find this mess!

Spot the intruder… my neighbours’ cat most indignantly telling me off as if it were my fault! 🤦🏼‍♀️

Took me a minute to understand what was going on but the paw prints soon gave it away followed by a loud mewing from the shade under my chair. Nearly jumped out of my skin! 😳

He’s gorgeous though eh? Had to forgive him - just glad I’d closed my laptop! 🐈‍⬛ 👩‍🏫 🪴(note to self: holiday to do list - clean that window!)