“When you find the places where a culture splits from a natural truth you have found a key, a way inside the dis-eases of the culture.”[1] I read this quotation recently whilst relaxed, in the sunshine during the summer holidays and yet it’s effect on me was that...
Assemblies are powerful platforms. However, often young people describe them as: boring, long and cringey. What’s going wrong? Some ideas : – powerpoint presentations – ‘motivational’ videos (usually in poor...
Recently, I got locked in a classroom with over 30 year 11s. To be completely accurate: the door handle fell off in my hand (sorry, couldn’t find that image). To begin with there are a whole host of metaphors for education here, as thousands of students around...
Love is not a word we often feel allowed to use in education. But it’s there. Of course it’s there. As educators, we (usually at some point do or have) love our subject and many of us love our jobs – at least the teaching bit – hence why we...
Pupil: “Miss, what does patronising mean?” Me: “When you talk down to someone as if they’re younger or inferior to you – in a bad way.” Pupil: “Oh, you mean like you did in our first ever lesson together?” First...
Once a month I noticed a year 11 student refused to engage in the lessons. She would get her make-up out, back chat and appear lazy. For the other three weeks she generally tried hard. In the run up to her exams the time she spent distracted increased. Armed with...
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