In the very first episode of the Wonderful Us Podcast, we explore how to gain strength from adversity, and in the difficult days of the Covid pandemic, we discuss ways…
Susan Pallister
Welcome to the website of Susan Pallister-podcaster, writer and educational consultant. I am the founder of ‘The Independent Teacher Podcast’, a new educational programme that launched in September 2021, as…
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 2019, 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,…
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%.
Sasha
