Tag Archives: Britain

Learning Locally: Part One

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Once upon a time, primary school teachers didn’t have a National Curriculum, and somehow they managed to work out what children needed to be taught and how they could interest their children in learning. Research papers, countless studies and published … Continue reading

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Children, Poverty, Wellbeing and Learning

As a teacher and an educator your first concern is with the wellbeing of the children. How can they learn if they’re tired, frightened, upset, ill, anxious, distracted or hungry? We often talk about the need to listen very carefully … Continue reading

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The Olympic Games, Virtuous Citizens, and Multiple Intelligences

The less said about the Olympics closing ceremony, the better. Although we could could go on at length about it. For the most part it was more than two hours of silly, shallow, showbizzy nonsense, with some truly terrible music … Continue reading

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The Legacy of Creative Ceremonies

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

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The Olympics Begins – and the Whole World’s Watching

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

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