Last month there was a brilliant example of the ways a teacher can improve the lives or happiness of pupils without having to teach anything. The whole pastoral care thing is difficult to pin down and define and impossible to measure and put into league tables, but can make a lot of difference, which we [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Education'
There is more to being a teacher than just teaching
February 7th, 2009 · No Comments · Life
Tags: Education·Family·Schooldays
School’s Out – part two
February 4th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Life
Still on the topic of school closures, and after reading the Guardian’s story more closely I realise that I missed the opportunity to ride one or two of my hobby horses, so let’s try again…
School’s Out
February 4th, 2009 · 6 Comments · Life
This morning the Guardian managed to simultaneously write about the fuss concerning schools closing due to snow and demonstrate the need for education, by including this line in their story: The anger was most acute in cities where every schools was shut
Tags: Education
Graham Stringer
January 15th, 2009 · 5 Comments · Politics
The most efficient responses to Graham Stringer’s bizarre outburst about dyslexia would be one word long. “Idiot” for example. Other responses could be book-length disections of his remarks. I’ll seek the middle ground on this one…
Tags: Education·Idiots·Medicine/Health
19th Nervous Breakdown
August 21st, 2008 · 3 Comments · Life
Its GCSE results day tomorrow…Â I’m kind of glad that I will be at work and safe from the critical mass of nervous energy, anticipation, dread, expectation and teenage angst that will be brewing up in the vicinity of many homes and every secondary school tomorrow.
Record of achievement
May 13th, 2008 · 5 Comments · Life
On Friday we went down to K2 for Thomas Bennett’s Year 11 Record of Achievement ceremony.  I had not not been to one of these before – I missed Frankie’s and Chas’s school did something in the evening which was on a much smaller scale: he did go to a much smaller school.
Tags: Crawley·Education·Schooldays
Come on Sheffield!
March 3rd, 2008 · 2 Comments · Life
I do not normally find myself cheering Sheffield on, and especially not after all the bad feeling at the end of the last football season, but tonight they are in the final of University Challenge against Christ Church College, Oxford
School’s Out
June 29th, 2007 · 4 Comments · Life
Although I dislike meetings and can get easily bored by them, I really feel guilty when I miss ones I should be at, and I feel especially guilty if I miss a meeting I am supposed to be chairing. Tonight, after having previously written up agendas, e-mailed some and physically gone all round Broadfield delivering [...]
Response to campus shootings
April 20th, 2007 · 6 Comments · Politics
After the Columbine shootings, when a couple of teenagers in black overcoats strolled through their school shooting people with guns, other schools took steps to prevent copycat incidents by banning guns black overcoats. (Really!) This week a Korean boy in a combat vest made a video of himself and strolled though his school shooting students, [...]
Today’s Conservapedia hilarity
March 2nd, 2007 · 3 Comments · Politics
The Conservapedia site looks like being a great source of entertainment, even despite the scary thought that those behind it are totally serious. For some reason, Wikipedia does not have an entry on it, but it is mentioned in the entry about the Eagle Forum. Perhaps the most worrying aspect of the whole business is [...]
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