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.
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?
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).
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”.’