Feb-your-way?

There’s a lot of noise surrounding education at the moment.  Inside the classroom there’s excited chatter, laughter, questions, awe and wonder.  Outside the school gates, the volume ramps up considerably.

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Jan-you-wary?

Back to school. Most of us have got a week under our belt, probably with an INSET thrown in. It’s almost as if Christmas never happened, isn’t it?

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The Yellow Brick Road to Christmas

October 31st: it’s a nightmare, isn’t it?  I don’t mean the Halloween thing, even though the whole ‘trick-or-treat’ business doesn’t exactly focus young minds (rather scrambling them with E numbers).

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Nothing

A few words for teachers and parents (and those who are both). ‘We always ask him what he did at school today, and the answer is always the same: “nothing”.’

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