Saturday, 31 October 2015

Education, testing, knowledge, testing, education, testing

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1. Make claim that education has gone to the dogs. 2. Make even stronger claim that this is because teachers are lazy, bad and wrong-headed...
Friday, 30 October 2015

WMDs, New Labour, Tories and Corbyn

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Perhaps when the Chilcot report comes out, those who have blathered on about how wonderful the New Labour leadership were, how much better i...
Saturday, 24 October 2015

Some queries about the sample questions for the 2016 Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar Test

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This is what Year 6 teachers and pupils will be spending their time doing, this year. Here are some queries: 1. How many of the questions us...
Sunday, 18 October 2015

I'm supposed to be rooting for the Northern Hemisphere now, am I?

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The lunacy of sporting nationalisms: if you're from England, you are supposed to support England, when England are knocked out or not re...
Wednesday, 14 October 2015

Labour MP explains what's wrong with Osbornomics

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Labour MP Jonathan Reynolds said in the House tonight: "We’re getting to the crux of this debate, which is that this fiscal charter is ...
Tuesday, 13 October 2015

Comment by teacher on how to interest children in books and reading

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"At the moment I am designing a series of vinyl displays for teachers to attach to their existing display boards. The aim is to encoura...

Poems can...my slogans for poetry: please share any or all...

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Poetry is for everyone. In private or for sharing, we find ourselves in it. The poet suggests. We interpret. That's freedom. ...