With the new academic year comes new routines and new people – people you may be seeing regularly for the next few years. Here’s how to get things off to a good start, or at least prevent issues
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Summer is over. That means sayonara to sizzling beach trips, camping out, industrial sized vats of SPF 50 and music festivals. And Hello to Instagram’s favourite season – autumn – full of bowls of soup, oversized jumpers, extra curricular timetables, and Herman Munster style school shoes.
School is back, and for many parents that means so too are hours spent hovering around the school gates, waiting to drop off or pick up precious cargo.