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To give it its full name, it’s Anish Kapoor‘s Arcelor Mittal Orbit. It’s been called a lot worse things than that. For the sake of brevity let’s just call it the Orbit. If anyone doubts Anish Kapoor’s credentials as an … Continue reading
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This was our first visit to the Olympic Park, and our first set of photographs taken within the site.
If ever there was a demonstration of the value of enabling people to be free to express themselves creatively, it was in Danny Boyle’s opening ceremony for the Olympics. Frank Cottrell Boyce has written an excellent piece in the Observer, … Continue reading
In our recent blog, we made reference to ‘pupil voice’. Too often we ignore what children and young people have to say about education, about the world, about what they want. The Cambridge Review of Primary Education was particularly focused … Continue reading
Thinking back to the Olympics opening ceremony last Friday evening it occurs to me that – as good as it was as a spectacle – the most important element for me was the music. The same was true for the … Continue reading
So finally – it begins. Last night’s opening ceremony of the 30th Olympic Games was, as expected, a terrific mixture of the sublime and the ridiculous, the eccentric and the mainstream, the joyful and the laughable. Clearly it amazed, entertained, … Continue reading
A roundup of a few fairly random pieces today. “I couldn’t sit in front of a desk and concentrate for more than a minute. But when I was learning to dance, my attention was focused for hours.” – Dancer and … Continue reading
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