SCHOOLS OPEN, TEACHERS SACRIFICED, BORIS OK
Let’s get straight to it: If we reopen our schools some teachers will catch the covid-19 virus and some will die. We know…
CHILD CARE, EXAM FACTORIES AND EDUCATION
My past often informs my present. Just 52 years ago I was a van boy delivering sausages in County Kilburn. A shopkeeper offered…
KEEP CALM AND CARRY ON!
Parents and teachers of kids across the nation, stop it! Calm down, relax and remember none of us is at school. For all…
A PERSONAL TRIBUTE TO SIR JOHN ROWLING
On Friday 17th January Sir John passed away after a short illness. If you read my blogs you know I have never written…
WAS IT FOR THIS THE CLAY GREW TALL?
This is not a happy Christmas message; it is not an optimistic assessment of how great we will be as a nation once…
CHOOSING A SECONDARY SCHOOL
Around this time every year thousands of families complete their secondary school choices. The lucky ones can send their 11 year olds to…
WHY YOU SHOULDN’T THINK OF TEACHING
Has there ever been a more obvious time when UK politics uses “The Joker” as its theme, “Clowns to the left of me,…
SMART TECHNOLOGY, OUTSMARTED
Lesson time is possibly now the only waking moments when children are more than a metre from their phones or computers. With end…
REDUCING TEACHER WORKLOAD
Ofsted reported that I look for ways to reduce teacher workload. I didn’t contribute to either of the government’s two working groups on…
OOPS! WE HANGED THE WRONG MAN
I opened my door to a man brandishing a shotgun. As a co-op milkman I lived on my round so was this a…