Here's a message to all teachers and school leaders beginning a new school year: You are valuable. You are doing essential work. In fact you have cho... [Read on ...]

Lord Putnam's rally-call We Are The People We Have Been Waiting For concludes that a rich and worthwhile education equally values academic and non-aca... [Read on ...]

Just back from a couple of weeks in northern Brittany and the chance to try out soft cheese, empty beaches, good wine and O-Level French. When in Fran... [Read on ...]

"Ministers are committed to giving schools more freedom from unnecessary prescription and bureaucracy. They have always made clear their intentions to... [Read on ...]

Judgement aside on the likes of Tony Hayward (pot £10.4 million, annual pension £600,000) and Fred Goodwin (similar) and on the UK's massive overdraft... [Read on ...]

“I’m an unashamed traditionalist when it comes to the curriculum,” Mr Gove said. “Most parents would rather their children had a traditional education... [Read on ...]

OK - site transfer nearly complete - just waiting for video and forum licenses to come thru then good to go. Right now 40 of you are taking a look - t... [Read on ...]

Often the first voice a parent hears when contacting school is the one on the answering machine. Listen to this answer message with an open mind, a li... [Read on ...]

It's not like switching a light on and off I now realise - switching to a new website goes bit by bit over a few days - especially with 11,000 re... [Read on ...]

Thinking Classroom version 4 will be launched this week. Less blogging and tweeting from me than usual due to working on the new content, pages a... [Read on ...]

"I can sort this. There is a way to sort this": (teacher fixing a problem in front of her class - the Teachers' TV clip had reset itself to the star... [Read on ...]

In Northern Ireland this week and greeted one morning by a SAT NAV first: Programmed in origin & destination, route calculated, then it announ... [Read on ...]

The financial axe has swung. Education ducked at just the right time. Apart from BECTA. Do we think, "Oh, we're OK" (schools, Sure Start, 16-19), ... [Read on ...]

Do a quick 'educational audit': 1. How good do you feel about your job? 2. How well resourced, supported and trained are you? 3. What sort of ... [Read on ...]

Inspiring documentary and movement to evolve education into something more fit for purpose. http://www.wearethepeoplemovie.com/ http://www.youtube.c... [Read on ...]

Major teaching unions have voted to boycott SATs. Heads, teachers, governors and parents all have their views. The government's position is clear: htt... [Read on ...]

'Learning' mentioned in .pdf Conservative Manifesto: Twice; Labour: 20 times; Lib Dem: 3 times. Go figure

1. Create a grid of activities cross-referencing MI and Bloom's (e.g Visual/Synthesis = create a 6 frame cartoon strip; Naturalist/Evaluation = organi... [Read on ...]

My son brought a great idea home from school: his teacher dished out various parts of the Easter story to groups, each group wrote that part of the sc... [Read on ...]

Have been out and about hence gap between posts. Now hunkered down working on new website. Bags of resources, a bit of flare and dazzle, but not at th... [Read on ...]