Monthly Archives: April 2017

Originally posted on Horatio Speaks:
OPHELIA: The king rises! HAMLET: What? Frighted with false fire? CLAUDIUS: Give me some light! Away! – Hamlet  In Act Three of Hamlet, the troubled prince hatches a plan to prove the king’s guilt. He…

My last post was written to explain why I thought ‘grammar schools for all’ was probably an unworkable idea. I introduced Judith Rich Harris’s group socialisation theory to support… Continued here http://ift.tt/2puusEW

Originally posted on teaching personally:
So that’s it. I am told that today is officially my last day of paid employment as a teacher, at least for the time being. Although the paperwork has not come through yet, I must…

Originally posted on Filling the pail:
Embed from Getty Images To improve a school, it is necessary to focus on one or two things and then relentlessly go after them for about four or five years. That seems to work.…

Originally posted on Governing Matters:
Earlier this year the Department for Education (DfE) launched a consultation into the proposal, “Enabling maintained school boards to remove elected governors”. The consultation posed three questions: Do you agree that governing bodies should be…