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The end of the elder blossom is upon us. Last weekend we walked around Bradwell and Bancroft, noticing how much was still left. So this evening I [...]
June 30, 2018
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We are entering a period of challenging transition at Christ the Sower. Our strong and compassionate leadership team, motivated by and seeking to [...]
June 7, 2018
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As I tread gently here into the realm of the heretical, I need to confess first that I have not met anyone in English education yet who would [...]
May 9, 2018
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Every so often, I am asked to try and summarise the impact of all we have done here at Christ the Sower. I had to do it today, for a relatively [...]
May 8, 2018
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Over this weekend I have been rejoicing in reading the excellent Flip the System UK: A Teacher’s Manifesto whose central thesis, expressed [...]
April 17, 2018
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Last weekend, this was a fairly typical scene in central Milton Keynes, a city where I have received more affection and encouragement than I have [...]
March 9, 2018
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If we as teachers (and leaders of teachers) have the responsibility of designing the curriculum for our children and in that, transmitting the [...]
January 15, 2018
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A change of metaphor from footsteps in the snow, and one inspired by a beautiful walk last Thursday along the Ouse (as far as we could go) near [...]
January 1, 2018
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It has been a most extraordinary month, this October. It has seen the culmination of the most wonderful, zealous and moving term that I think I [...]
October 30, 2017
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In my ideal school, we would teach all children how to garden, the basic principles of four-crop rotation, how to lay a brick wall, how to build [...]
October 18, 2017