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I was not aware that the redoubtable Amy Chua, the self-styled Tiger Mother, has been attracting quite so much hate mail. Apparently, according [...]
January 28, 2012
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It was a delight yesterday to take 27 children from Years 4 and 5 to MK Gallery to study the film work of Daria Martin. We went because we are [...]
January 26, 2012
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Nick Gibb, Schools Minister, has been re-interpreted by the Telegraph on its front page (Saturday 21 Jan edition). If you read what he actually [...]
January 22, 2012
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A couple of things have really got under my skin yesterday. This may be code for another rant, but it isn’t. OK, it might be. It is just [...]
January 18, 2012
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Whilst messing about trying to find some pictures to use for a gravatar (a what?) and during the process of browsing suitable pictures to use as [...]
January 15, 2012
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The current secretary of state is so busy with new things (computer science in the curriculum was this week’s opener to mark the opening of [...]
January 14, 2012
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It has not been easy to find time to blog now that the term is underway. There is plenty going on already, and the danger is that we get to the [...]
January 12, 2012
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One of the difficulties of leading a school like ours is that many of the things we value are not valued by OFSTED. And the proxies that they use [...]
January 2, 2012
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I was not one of the 250000 who flooded down to the Thames last night to see the new year in. Not even Jools’ Hootenanny got a look in this [...]
January 1, 2012