Building schools for the future

I am continuing to enjoy the eclectic mix of ideas and views that come my way each day via the bloggers’ circle. One post that caught my eye this week was Joe Nutt’s piece about the building schools for the future programme. Joe paints a gloomy picture of the government’s attempt to rebuild every secondary [...]

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First day at school

Tomorrow, my younger boy starts school.  My two older children have been in school a few years now and it’s been a generally positive experience for them.  They’ve made friends, learned a great deal and had plenty of fun. And yet, I find myself fighting against this first day at school.  For one thing, there’s the dullness of [...]

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Free time

Usually every Monday morning at 9am I am part of a departmental meeting where we look back at the highs and lows of the previous week, and forward to what’s coming up in the week ahead.  It’s a useful meeting but inevitably it has become something of a ritual. There was no Monday morning meeting this [...]

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