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It has been an interesting week, mostly. The least interesting thing about it (by a long way) has been a visit from Ofsted to inspect the [...]
April 25, 2024
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These photos arrived in my inbox last month from my youngest daughter, finishing her work on Waiheke, a small island east of Auckland, of this [...]
April 25, 2024
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There has been a great deal written over the recent high court decision to side with Katherine Birbalsingh’s ruling as headteacher of [...]
April 19, 2024
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The photos in this post are of the stift in Melk, lower Austria. The monastery is Europe’s largest assemblage of Baroque religious [...]
April 19, 2024
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I am writing this in Vienna, where we are spending a week of celebration of one wedding anniversary and two birthdays with our family. In the [...]
April 16, 2024
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I have, on reflection, been bored to tears by quite a lot of the teaching I have needed to observe over the last 3 years as a so-called teacher [...]
March 16, 2024
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This wonderful phrase, from Laurie Lee’s 1955 account of his return to Andalucia, A Rose for Winter, is his attempt to describe the effects [...]
March 5, 2024
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I cannot remember when I have longed for spring more. It is symptomatic, I think, of the hunger for God I have found in my reading and singing, [...]
March 3, 2024
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We had the most interesting day yesterday – five PGCE student teachers and I – visiting the Design Technology and Engineering [...]
February 29, 2024
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Last Thursday we had our annual festival of research. This is a great chance for all the Primary PGCE students at UEL to meet their secondary [...]
February 12, 2024