If possible, creating a special place for each child to complete their school work, with a table or desk and some natural lighting, can be helpful. Even better if it can be separate from their bedroom.
Headphones can be used to block out noise from distracting siblings or working parents, making it possible for families to work in one room. Meanwhile, families with Playstation or Xbox consoles can use them to access Microsoft Teams and Google Classroom – handy if the computer is being used by someone else.
While they’re completing schoolwork, try to make sure children are comfortable with good posture, and that their eyes are focused towards the top of the screen if they’re looking at a laptop. If older children have mobile phones, encourage them to leave them in a separate room and close down all other apps on their digital devices while taking part in online lessons.
Cheltenham Festivals came close to being ‘sunk’ by the pandemic
Figures showing hundreds of thousands of visitors to 2020’s Cheltenham Literature Festival hide just how close the town could have come to losing its showpieces events.
Just some of the faces that appeared at The Times & The Sunday Times Cheltenham Literature Festival in 2020 and helped make it such a success.
Had the team behind Cheltenham Festivals not executed a dramatic last-minute re-write of its business plan, the organisation may have been may have been ‘sunk’, according to its chairperson Diane Hill, OBE (nee Savory).
New figures showing how many people viewed Cheltenham Literature Festival digitally in 2020, underline just how successful and necessary the organisation’s sudden transformation to embrace online was.
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My sound effect of a zip undoing was scratched out : the making of The Archers’ sexiest scenes
From scandalous trysts and winking innuendo to sensitively portrayed trauma, the Radio 4 soap lets us eavesdrop on people s intimate lives
27 December 2020 • 5:00pm
Emerald O Hanrahan and Barry Farrimond as Emma and Ed Grundy in The Archers
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When The Archers’ creator Godfrey God Baseley told his cast, “This is not a drama programme, it’s real life overheard,” the cast may have taken it with a pinch of salt. Listeners, however, took it very much to heart. In the near-70 years since The Archers began airing (it marks that anniversary on New Year’s Day), it has taken in all manner of scandal, but, in true British fashion, sex remains at the forefront of listener thoughts.