Securing an NQT post is an amazing but daunting feeling. The realisation that you’ll be moving from constant observations, hand-holding, daily advice, an ITT timetable, glorious uni-release days, into the …
Over the last decade, we have seen a glossing of the educational philosophies and landscape. We have polarised ourselves into camps – we are traditional or progressive; we are Team …
‘…our human speech is naught. Our human testimony false, our fame and human estimation words and wind. …Art remains the one way possible of speaking truth…’ Robert Browning The Ring …
A lamp is lit. Until this moment, when the flame of the lamp flares blue, then settles to steady yellow inside its ornate globe, the young man had been impressed …
Within this poem is a mind, a body, and a world beyond repair. There is a patina of respectability; there is a semblance of order in these four tightly-held stanzas, …
“Parrots sit on carrots,” said the cat. “Lions sit on irons and parrots sit on carrots.” “Doesn’t sound very comfortable,” said the frog. “It’s not about being comfortable,” said the …
What a small poem. Ozymandias is tiny, really. Neatly condensed and deceptively packed into sonnet form, it’s densely crammed with narrators, images, hubris, and the devastating, eternal nothingness at the …
Last week, a friend forwarded me an email from her SLT. My stomach lurched as I read the content. I thought we were over this era of creating documents for …
Some of the improvement drives that we’ve seen in teaching have been an absolute waste of time. None of these comments in this blog are new; they’ve been blogged about …
When some students leave school at 16, barely able to read and write, or with an identical literacy profile to the one that they had at the age of 11, …
