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…
WHO IS LYING ABOUT SCHOOL FUNDING?
A week ago I joined almost 2,000 headteachers marching, ever so quietly, to Downing Street to protest about the funding crisis in schools….
CLASS A PARENTING (Parenting & Childhood in Crisis Part Two)
I met a parent shopping with her 13 year old daughter. Her 11 year old boy was at home, safely left alone with…
Freedom of Speech? Ah – that would be an ecumenical matter…
I did not condemn the IRA in 1971 when I wrote calling for the withdrawal of troops from Ireland. I was reminded of…
Parenting And Childhood In Crisis
In our local group of secondary schools over 500 students qualify for special consideration, individual arrangements, someone to read for them, or a…