Monthly Archives: May 2017

It takes a village…: To everything there is a season…: Confession: until I was well into my 20s, I didn’t know that the lyrics to The Byrds song “Turn! Turn! Turn!” came from the Bi…

If you don’t like swearing this post’s probably not for you. I’m a big fan of profanity and, much to the chagrin of my family, I swear immoderately. There are times when nothing… Continued here http://ift.tt/2rS7XgE

thinkingreadingwritings You may think that providing disadvantaged children with the opportunity to attend a grammar school – supposedly resulting in a more academic education – would go some way to addressing that disadvantage, but it isn’t. It’s a diversion from … Continue reading →

Originally posted on teaching personally:
I only have to look at the TES jobs bulletins in my inbox to see the teacher recruitment crisis. I don’t think I’ve ever seen so many Geography vacancies in one year before. At the…

Originally published on the Parents and Teachers for Excellence blog here. Two trends have dominated how British exams have changed over recent decades: they have become more high-stakes, and they… Continued here: http://ift.tt/2rOgilo

Originally posted on Scenes From The Battleground:
Tone Policing. The only motive is to end debate. I’ve written before about tone policing – when people get annoyed at the way people speak on social media. The problem with tone policing…

Originally posted on Esse Quam Videri:
The academic year my daughter was three she attended two different nursery settings. She took away two quite different EYFS assessments, one from each setting, at the end of the year. The disagreement between…