Thursday, 16 January 2025

Books and a video I've made about my relatives and what happened to them in the Holocaust

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'The Missing' (Walker Books) (Paperback) An autobiographical account of how I found out what happened to my relatives in the Holoca...
Wednesday, 15 January 2025

Israeli newspaper 'Haaretz' quoted from and summarised Antony Blinken's speech this week as follows:

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'"The more people suffer, the less they feel empathy for those suffering on the other side. Large majorities throughout the Arab an...
Sunday, 12 January 2025

Why doesn't the Dept of Education ask poets who do poetry writing workshops, to tell them how we get children to write poems?

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  So here's a mystery: for as long as I've been writing poems for children, I've been doing poetry writing workshops for primary...
Saturday, 11 January 2025

Poetry teaching in primary schools. What's going on?

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In a session with teacher trainee students on Friday, I asked them to talk about the poetry sessions they had observed in schools. Many of t...
Wednesday, 25 December 2024

The Jewish Socialist Group have a Chanukah Party 'two days early'?

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The Jewish Socialist Group (JSG) held a Chanukah party on Sunday Dec 23. People who don't like the JSG have objected to this, mainly on...
Sunday, 15 December 2024

Words versus Deeds - at times of great crisis, which is the more important?

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Strange as it may seem, for someone like me to say it, but there are times when I think that words have very little or no importance. Start...
Saturday, 14 December 2024

A separate, ring-fenced, open-ended 'interpretation' time for schools?

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I wish there could be a space for pupils of all ages called 'interpretation' in which it was accepted that there will be a variety ...