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Monthly Archives: July 2013
Highwaymen: Myth, Folklore and Legend: Stand and Deliver!
Myth, Folklore and Legend: Stand and Deliver! SECRET passageways; tunnels connecting ancient buildings; smuggling, skulduggery, and sexually fascinating felons; a bungled robbery and a mortally-wounded bandit – all dispensing the aphrodisiac of political or criminal power: such are the ingredients of … Continue reading
Posted in Local History, Uncategorized
Tagged Crime, Dick Turpin, Folklore, Manor House, Secret passage, Stonnall, Tom King, United States
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More Great Expectations. Gove’s New National Curriculum: Garden Path or Right Track?
Gove’s New National Curriculum: Garden Path or Right Track? The six-week-holiday is fast-approaching and us teachers have some holiday reading to do. The new draft National Curriculum is OUT THERE, published last Monday (8th July) to be scrutinised, and critically … Continue reading
Posted in Education
Tagged Department for Education, Globe Theatre, National Curriculum, Stratford-upon-Avon
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High Expectations of Low-Achieving Kids. Gove & Abbott: The Odd Couple
Gove & Abbott: The Odd Couple Their eyes met across a crowded room. “..I’m in love!” declared the dashing male lead. On the opposite side of the room the lady fluttered her eyelashes and agreed with everything he said. ‘Men … Continue reading
The Creative Curriculum : Why Run Before You Can Walk?
“Mama said I was a dancer before I could walk. She said I began to sing long before I could talk”…so went the lyrics to the song ‘Thank You for the Music’ by seventies Swedish super-group, Abba. Lovely stuff and … Continue reading
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Tagged Cristina Odone, Department for Education, Education, English language, Gove, Labour, Michael Gove, Simon Kelner
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Unqualified Teachers? Horses For Courses
Horses For Courses. Jamie Oliver demanded, and apparently got, a revolution in school meals. In a television series shown a few years ago, he went through the lunchtime offerings of many a school dinner menu with a fine tooth comb … Continue reading
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Tagged Bernard Matthews Farms, David Starkey, DNA, horsemeat, Jamie, Jamie Oliver, School meal, Simon Callow
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Let’s not worry about the futile stuff: Grow Up @toryeducation!
Grow Up @toryeducation! @toryeducation have been in the news rather a lot lately, at least the news that I read (ie:Twitter). The bombastic and bamboozling ‘twitter feed’ that comes straight from the heart of the DfE, is somewhat controversial, to … Continue reading
My first post for Backbencher, Feb 2013: Education: The DEbaccle
Education: The DEbaccle. The latest furore to engulf both the media and education worlds alike is the debacle of Michael Gove’s Ebacc scheme as well as changes to the GCSE system. This follows last year’s (widely accepted) ‘scandal’ surrounding the … Continue reading
