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Of course the easiest thing to say, is that there is no ‘normal’ day. It is true to say that days can be very variable, some paperwork orientated (or more accurately e-mail orientated) and on other days I rarely get to the office, spending the day running between meetings with organisations, constituents or sitting on committees. Monday is the longest day as the last votes (votes can be a single vote at the end of the day or they can be a series of votes throughout the day) start at 10pm. If there is just one vote, I can leave at about 10.20, getting home by 11.30pm. If there are a series of votes then it can be later. As I am a ‘morning person’ the late sittings make the day long. I like early starts so having got my self up and out of the house by 6.10, I usually arrive by 6.45am. Parliament is quiet and I tend to get more done in the first few hours than in the rest of the day! Having bought a large coffee and a pastry I open up the email in box. I never cease to be amazed at how many people are up and sending emails in the early hours of the day. On a ‘normal’ day I receive 200+ emails and I see every one. Most residents will receive the initial response from me, if only outlining what I can do to help. Then my team take over to follow through I have 4.5 staff helping me. The team will then contact whichever third party - the NHS, Barnet Homes, the Council, UK Visa & Immigration etc, we need to to try and resolve the issue. Of those 200+ emails, about a third are from a variety of organisations who are simply lobbying - they usually get deleted. About a third are straightforward (this is my opinion on X, what’s your opinion). The remainder involve having to take up the cudgels on behalf of residents. So coffee in hand, I start to clear the overnight emails and glance at the newspapers. Come 8am, cup of tea with PA/Office Manager to go through diary for day/rest of week, look at the Order Paper to review the business in the Chamber and Departmental Questions, chat through cases currently being worked on and generally catch up. The first meeting will usually be at 9am and I allocate time slots in the mornings and in the afternoons for meetings. The meetings could be with constituents who want to discuss an issue or press a point for an organisation they are involved in or often they will be with Charities arguing a case. I also use this time to

catch up key organisations such as the Police, NHS, Council etc. On Mondays the Commons doesn’t start departmental questions or debating legislation until 2.30pm (it allows MPs from across the UK to travel to Westminster from their constituency). I often attend these question times as it is a good way of keeping up to date on what each Government department is doing. After questions, there will be legislation to be debated. Time for meetings or attending debates can be quickly taken out of the diary if I have to support one of the Ministers. I am parliamentary aide to Nick Boles MP, a Minister at Business & Skills and at Education. If he is steering new laws through a committee (where MPs scrutinise a law line by line) I have to attend with him (where I act as a conduit for officials to get information to the Minister and back again) - archaic rules mean that during a debate or committee officials and Ministers can’t be seen to communicate!! Hopefully by 4pm the Committee has finished (they can meet once or they can meet twice a day for several days! I then scurry back to the office to clear emails, catch up on messages and sign letters. In the evenings there will usually be informal meetings eg on topics MPs are campaigning about (I’m involved in some mens health campaigns) or as I Chair the London Conservative MPs Group, that meeting takes place in the evening. By 8pm, I’m ready to grab something to eat. Catch up on more emails, (and have a little quiet time) before moving back towards the Chamber about 9.30pm to hear the closing speeches and then voting! Mr Mike Freer is the Member of Parliament (MP) for the constituency of Finchley and Golders Green. We are delighted to announce that he has agreed to respond to questions/ concerns regarding Central Government matters. We therefore invite readers to submit these to the North West Circular (info@northwestcircular.com) for Mr Freer to address via this Column.

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However, many teachers still believe in using the ‘whole word’ approach. As the name implies, children are taught to recognise the whole word, and to make meaning of the word from the context it is written.

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We read all the time in order to function within society. When shopping, when driving, even when taking medicine we need to read and comprehend. It is no surprise therefore that schools place high importance on children learning to read and to have full comprehension of the texts they provide. As a teacher, I have always tried to instill the love of reading for enjoyment. Evidence suggests that children who read for pleasure every day develop a broader vocabulary, possess an increased general knowledge and have a better understanding of other cultures. Reading for enjoyment develops our imagination and sharpens our minds. It allows us to go on a journey to places which would otherwise be impossible to experience. It allows our own creativity to shine.

What should a child be given to read? From a very early age, children should be shown the value of the written word. The value of reading to and with your children cannot be over stated. Take simple steps by surrounding your children with comics, books, newspapers and atlases. Take them to the library and help them choose their books –their passions and interests will come to the fore. Encourage them to download stories onto a kindle. Let them follow their football teams through magazines and journals. Before your eyes you will witness the great benefit reading has on your child’s development and growth.

How do children learn to read? There are a number of methods used in schools for teaching children to read. In England children are all taught to use phonics. By using phonics children are taught how to: • recognise the sounds that each individual letter makes • identify the sounds that different combinations of letters make • blend these sounds together from left to right to make a word. Children can then use this knowledge to ‘de-code’ new words that they hear or see.

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We use letter sounds and letter blends to teach children how to de-code words and therefore be able to read and spell effectively. Furthermore, we also use words in different contexts as through comprehension exercises and games children are able to predict what the word says based on the context it is written in. Our techniques not only enable children to read and understand words, but crucially to enjoy reading. We teach them to expand their vocabulary, and to use their new found language skills to use in their own writings. Moreover, through reading we teach the correct use of grammar and punctuation.

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Answer me these questions: 1.Am I concerned about computer security? 2.How many secure websites do I use where my personal information is available? 3.How many different passwords do I use? 4.How secure are my passwords? For most people the answer to the first question might well colour your answers to the remainder. If you are not concerned about computer security there are only two situations where this is not an issue. The first is that you do not use a computer, smart phone or tablet at all. The second is that you do use a computer but it is not connected to the internet in any shape or form. This is almost impossible with smart phones or tablets that are almost useless without a connection to the internet or phone network.

Now, many secure websites are insisting on secure passwords that have a minimum of 8 characters of which one must be a number, another a capital and another a symbol. Certainly the more complex a password is - the more difficult it is to crack it, but do you use the same password for all secure websites. This might make it easier to remember but this in itself carries a risk. Every now and again nefarious persons have managed to hack into websites and have stolen the lists of the passwords of its users. If your password is among them, and it is used for every secure website you visit, then you have given away the keys to the kingdom. So you need different passwords for different websites, and a way or remembering all of them.

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One way of doing this is to create a password made up of two unconnected random words with a letter capitalised and a number or numbers or a symbol inserted. An example being ‘wash82Clip’. As they are proper words they are relatively easy to remember so you could have a collection of such passwords. Don’t write them down!!!

One danger is of viruses and other malware that can be picked up from the internet or by email. These can be combated by using proprietary anti-virus and anti-malware software. This article is not about viruses or malware but I would be delighted to assist anyone who has concerns regarding such matters.

Of course you could enter them on a document or spreadsheet on your computer and have this locked with a master password. Then the only password you need to remember is the master password as the others are locked within the document. If this is your preferred course I can show you how to achieve this.

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RECENT STORY from ISRAEL

Aharon Samet, owner of the Samet factory which produces tzitzis (fringes), is the Badatz community supervisor for the wheat harvest. On a radio program with Rabbi Moshe Ben Lulu, he told the story of the great miracle which occurred for the people of Israel thanks to this year’s wheat harvest. A group of residents came from Bnei Brak recently to harvest wheat for Pesach. They harvest the wheat every summer when the sun beats down on the fields, thoroughly drying the wheat. The wheat is then stored, until the winter, at which time they start the production and baking of matzos. “This year we are getting ready for Shmittah, so this summer we harvested wheat grain for two years. We searched the whole country, looking for wheat which was sown late in the season and needed rain which fell late. At Kibbutz Sufa right next to the Gaza border we found an entire field sown in mid-January, which was considered very unusual. In this way we found 2,000 acres of green wheat which was just right for us,” said Samet. “We harvested the wheat,” he continued, “and we ran into military police, as well as undercover and regular police who came to check out who we were.” The Gaza air campaign was already well underway, and Samet and his colleagues saw the smoke clouds over Gaza. They heard the sirens while they were busy harvesting and transferring the wheat to trucks; then moving them towards the cleaning plant near Masmiya, for cleaning, fumigating and tithing of the wheat. Two days later, thirteen terrorists came out of a tunnel from Gaza, which opened into the fields near Sufa. The terrorists had been planning a big attack, and had been counting on hiding among Sufa’s giant wheat field–which the matzo makers had just chopped down in its entirety. The terrorists couldn’t understand how their camouflage had completely disappeared. The empty field enabled military observers to easily spot and identify the terrorists and open fire on them. Many Jewish lives were thus saved by the grace of Hashem.