Wednesday 11th November 1970: I remember getting up incredibly early as it was my birthday; I can still recall those cold winter mornings between 1969 and 1971, which were darker…
Looking to the future, remembering the past
I always loved going to the pictures when I was a youngster or, in later life, settling down on a Friday evening or a Saturday afternoon to watch a really…
The 2019 Rugby World Cup.
The final of the ninth Rugby World Cup will take place on Saturday 2nd November 2019. During apartheid, UK rugby teams rarely boycotted matches against South Africa and, as a result, faced…
British Sign Language
I am about to start a Level 1 British Sign Language course with research indicating that there are over 140 recorded living sign languages in the world each with their own…
Directed Instruction
Lessons can really focus on what students need to learn rather than devising creative activities where learning becomes almost secondary to task. A greater emphasis is placed on practising and demonstrating learning and understanding, rather than spending time trying to discover something that has taken the greatest minds of the past centuries to find.
Climate Change: A Century of Hell?
In September, I delivered my first assembly of the Autumn term focusing on the perils of climate change, which had been inspired by my reading, over the summer holidays, of…
Unreliable, Gorgeous Memories
In the last few months, I have been busy putting together a ‘memory book’ with my Mum. We have found so many lovely pictures dating back to the early 1930s,…
Sainsbury’s bans the sale of Fireworks
In a supermarket first, Sainsbury’s has announced that they are banning the sale of fireworks across all of their 2,300 branches recognising how distressing they can be for pets, the elderly and…
National Identity Crisis
In December 2015, only six months before the EU referendum, just 1% of a sample of the population in an IPSOS Mori poll indicated that Europe was an important issue. However, by April 2019 that figure had risen to a staggering 59%.
