I want to provide education and personal support for young people, aged 11-16yrs who have been excluded from the mainstream secondary education system. The Problem: Mainstream schools are increasingly under pressure to gain high results and therefore funding. With...
I often get asked ‘How’ I work with young people who display such extreme and challenging behaviour – even by fellow teachers in mainstream. There is, of course, no one stop ‘How’ but in this blog I share some best practices for working with such students both...
This month is LGBT History Month in UK schools. I am an out teacher, and as it happens, no, I am not a lesbian – I’m bisexual. (although it’s tricky sometimes to say the B word in front of 30+ teenagers – it has the word SEX in, and can lead a...
I returned from my month’s Education trip to Finland a few days ago. The questions I am now being asked on a regular basis are: – Is it just amazing? – Do they have loads of resources and money? – Are all the students well behaved? Overall the...
With my second school visit under my belt, my head around the main points and differences between Finland and the UK, I have been able to find many surprising similarities, and have even found the odd thing about the British system that I think works better! Missed...
This time last year I had a thought. I work with students with Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties – vulnerable people in our society who are segregated, excluded and marginalised. A group of people who, for some at a young age, were told in varying ways...
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