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This tagline from Toby Ziegler in the West Wing (Series 5 Episode 15) is something that resonates with me when I am surveying the field of [...]
May 31, 2012
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There is a curiously Anglo-Saxon habit in education that says if we can only get reading and writing and maths crammed into a 3-year-old’s [...]
May 26, 2012
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Many moons ago, I was introduced to the work and thinking of Ken Robinson, one of my great educational heroes. I have bored plenty of people with [...]
May 25, 2012
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I took this picture in 2005 a kilometre south of the Slovenian town of Kranjska Gora. Slovenia is one of my favourite countries, and has for me [...]
May 22, 2012
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Tomorrow we have our SIAS inspection. For the uninitiated, that is the Statutory Inspection of Anglican Schools. It seems like we have worked [...]
May 21, 2012
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I spent Friday evening at school planting out the various gifts that parents have given us into the new pergola/seating area outside the Y2/3 [...]
May 20, 2012
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Just finding time at the start of the day to stop and be quiet is becoming a rarity – it has been a whole week since I blogged last, [...]
May 19, 2012
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One of my favourite Private Eye covers, from October 1976, is this one – Gerald Ford is saying “There are no Russians in [...]
May 12, 2012
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Two things happened this afternoon – well, actually, a lot more than two, but two that I will mention. Firstly, I have wrestled to the [...]
May 11, 2012
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Don’t really want to get sucked into this one, but I have just read Nick Baines excellent piece (following Zoe Williams in the Guardian) on [...]
May 7, 2012