Your Trusted Guide to Essential Study Equipment
The August scramble is real. One minute the summer holidays feel endless, the next you’re staring at a school shopping list wondering how a “few bits of stationery” somehow adds up to a small fortune. The good news is that a genuinely well-stocked school starter pack under £25 exists — you just need to know … Read more
Somewhere between the last day of Reception and the first morning of secondary school, there’s a five-year stretch where the bag on your child’s back genuinely earns its keep. That’s Year 3 to Year 6 — ages seven through eleven — and it’s a different beast entirely to the tiny rucksacks toddlers wear more as … Read more
Somewhere between the last day of Reception and the first “big school” book bag drop, every parent has the same small panic: what actually goes in the pencil case? A pencil case for year 1 and 2 is not the same beast as the zip-up graveyard of dried-out felt tips your teenager will eventually carry … Read more
There’s a particular kind of panic that hits every parent around late July, usually while standing in a supermarket aisle holding a polo shirt in one hand and a book bag in the other, wondering if you’ve missed something crucial. A reception school starter pack is, at its simplest, the full set of uniform, bags, … Read more