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LGBT History Month UK (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
The British Museum hosted a day of presentations and workshops yesterday, to encourage celebrations of LGBT History Month, next February, whose theme will be Education and Young People. Students from three local schools took part in a field trip with a difference. They had a special tour of the museum’s LGBT exhibits and had a lesson in a rainbow coloured double decker bus on the museum forecourt....
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http://www.teachersolidarity.com (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
An Irish Demonstration earlier this Year Primary teachers in Ireland are in the middle of a ballot for strike action - the result will be announced on Monday
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Not PC (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
This week Bernard Darnton examines education’s standards. There’s been screeching recently from people opposed to new national standards in education. Apparently measuring how poorly children perform in maths will create an “education underclass”. And bathroom scales are responsible for the obesity epidemic. (By the way, that was just the most obvious example that came to mind....
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21st Century Learning (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
These fun animations were made by Primary teachers embarking on a visual literacy project as a cluster group. Retelling and adapting stories familiar with the class, some of the adaptations may not be totally recognisable to their students. Especially Bear Hunt! Enjoy. These examples were made in a day on recent teachers CPD day, short, focused simple ideas.
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News Digest (Free subscription) | 21/10/2009
England's primary schools are under intense pressure, but generally doing a good job, says the independent Cambridge Primary Review. The three year enquiry has ended with a 608 page report, including 75 recommendations for the future. Since 1997 when Labour came to power, investment in primary education has risen dramatically and many policies have had a positive impact, says the report. "Highly...
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Conor's Commentary (Free subscription) | 16/10/2009
It is a bit rich for Prof Robin Alexander and his cohorts on the self-styled 'biggest review of primary education in 40 years' to accuse politicians of ideological interference in schools when they have just presided over a review which has always has at its core an ideological opposition to national testing. So, nobody can be surprised at its best publicised conclusions, that national tests should...
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Keighley and Ilkley Liberal Democrat Website (Free subscription) | 16/10/2009
Just read the pre-pub for the Cambridge Primary Review, looking at primary education in England, thus far fascinating and something that I concur with whole-heartedly. The report sets out an analysis of the problems and recommends: * Delaying formal lessons until after a child turns six, to allow them to focus on play-based learning. The government currently plans to bring forward the school starting...
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The World According to Alan (Free subscription) | 12/10/2009
It has been ages since I last wrote a blog, principally because I have not had the time to actually sit down and enjoy writing one.... They say student's aren't busy.... well this maybe the case some of the time during term, particularly for me recently. A 2 day week - the novelty has definately worn off. However, as I may have ranted to you before, I worked my butt off during the summer. My last week...
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Cambridgeshire Education ICT Service (Free subscription) | 12/10/2009
Purpose: Spaces available Audience: Primary Teachers, TA's, ICT Subject Leaders Are you and your colleagues ESafety aware? Do you know what the key issues are? Would you like to know more? There is a half day course that will help you to review Esafety issues and help you to address the teaching and learning of esafety in your classroom. The course will investigate practical examples you could readily...
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Another Lost Shark (Free subscription) | 12/10/2009
I was not surprised when I read an article in the Daily Mail, with a headline that blared: More than half of primary teachers are unable to name three poets. And while this article represents a study done in the UK, I am sure that the results would be much the same, if anyone bothered [...]
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Brennig Jones (Free subscription) | 09/10/2009
Twenty-two percent of primary teachers Can name no poets at all. Not Keats or Yeats or Wordsworth Or even Fanshawe or Hall. More than half of primary teachers Are incapable of naming three! Does Britain allow such stupids To teach the children of we? For what is the logical next step When teachers are intellectually bound? If words build free imaginations Are this nation’s prospects sound? When...
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WeeklyWebsiteWeblog (Free subscription) | 04/10/2009
Teachers' TV is now embedded in our school website. You can choose from a variety of programmes for Primary teachers such as Collaborative Activities, Primary ICT – Advanced Whiteboard Techniques, KS1/2 – As Easy as CPD or go to the resources page for programmes to use with pupils in class.
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Kiwiblog (Free subscription) | 01/10/2009
The Dom Post reports: Education Minister Anne Tolley unveiled plans at the Post Primary Teachers’ Association (PPTA) national conference in Wellington yesterday to put 12,000 parents of disruptive kids through parenting courses and give 5000 teachers from low-income areas extra training to deal with violence. PPTA president Kate Gainsford said the plan was “a step in the [...]
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A Year From Oak Cottage (Free subscription) | 30/09/2009
Once upon a time, not so far away, a primary teacher stopped to speak to one of his students who was standing all by himself in the playground during break time, looking very forlorn and dejected. "Michael," he asked, "Why is today the best day of your life?" Michael looked at him with a puzzled face. "I don't know sir," was his reply. "It doesn't feel like it."...
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V-Formation (Free subscription) | 28/09/2009
I don't have any fishing stories to tell and my sister and I sadly haven't spoken for several months (something that needs to wear itself out) so instead I think I'd like to say a few words about being a baby. I don't claim to have any more experience being a baby than anyone else and I've spent many fewer hours, days, and months--years even--caring for babies than my blog-sisters and probably our...
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