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In the firing line: teachers

February 9th, 2009 · Comments Off on In the firing line: teachers · Politics

Why should teachers worry about a future Tory government?   Some of the answers are here in an article written by George Bridges, who used to be David Cameron’s campaign director, entitled “Time to crush the National Union of Teachers”.

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There is more to being a teacher than just teaching

February 7th, 2009 · Comments Off on There is more to being a teacher than just teaching · Life

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 […]

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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…

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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

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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…

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19th Nervous Breakdown

August 21st, 2008 · 3 Comments · Life

Its GCSE results day tomorrow…  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.

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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.

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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

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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 […]

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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, […]

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