Depending on your point of view, you may be feeling very sad or very relieved that it's back to school time. The only problem with being a teacher is that I never get that "phew, time to get some peace and quiet and me-time" feeling because when the kids go back, so do I. I can't complain though - I have just had the whole summer off ! We sat down earlier and got the school bags ready (theirs and mine !). We'd received some lovely school supplies for us to review so we dished them all out between us.
Juliette grabbed the whiteboard marker set - she's always losing her markers and you usually only get one in the pack with the whiteboard so it's great to get eight pens (two of each colour in red, green, blue and black). The large eraser is much more practical than the tiny little erasers on the tops of the pen lids, which is what she usually uses. She also grabbed the bright red pencil case (to keep all her new markers in) and the "magic" Pritt Stick (which goes on blue then turns transparent - very handy if you want to see where you've glued already). (All kindly supplied by ASDA - they currently have a selection of products on 2 for £3, as well as £1 offers on their back to school range. Go to the ASDA School Shop for more info. You may also like to check out our review of the ASDA school uniform range here.)
We also received this selection of beautiful mid-year diaries from Letts. Hitting the perfect balance of funky and functional, they might take some of the pain out of keeping track of all that homework ! The A6 diaries cost £5.99 and the larger A5 ones with a day to a page cost £9.99. They have plenty of room for marking down the all important dates (as in tests and homework deadlines, not secret trysts with the school heart-throb !), although if the girls are anything like me, the first thing they'll be highlighting will be the school holidays ! (For more information, see www.letts.co.uk.)
A really fun and unusual concept next - pencils that you use as normal then, when they get too small, you can plant them and they will magically grow into a plant ! Don't believe me? Find out more at http://www.plantyourpencil.com/ ! I'm hoping this will stop the girls from chewing the ends of their pencils, which is what they normally do ! They'll be able to eat the pencil plants instead though, as they will be basil, coriander, dill, mint, rosemary, sage or thyme. We haven't planted ours yet as they have been carefully tucked away in pencil cases but I'll show you how we get on when we do ! (RRP €3.50 each or 10 for €30)
I already had a bit of a stationery fetish but this little lot took restocking the pencil cases for the new school year to a whole new level !
Disclosure : We received the products in order to write an honest review.
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