Education Writer, Researcher and Policy Nerd. How to keep an eye on education. What to wear for a TV interview. The Gift of Mr McGee. It was never just about words with Mr McGee. Like all good English teachers, he made it about life.

Skinny and LongDog have been having some holiday adventures. This has mostly involved a tiny caravan and getting close up and personal with the humans with whom they generally hang out.

Thoughts on life, faith and children in our churches and schools. or end of the beginning? March 15, 2015. Naomi and Job must have felt their worlds were ending. They married Moabite women, one named Orpah and the other Ruth. After they had lived there about ten years,. Both Mahlon and Kilion also died, and Naomi was left without her two sons and her husband. Verses 15, 16, 17 and 19. And naked I will depart.

Thoughts about English teaching and education in general. What is book scrutiny? From scrutinising learning to understanding learning. The process of understanding student learning, rather than sat. The teaching sequence for independence.

That teachers would like to be removed from the curriculum. But since I wrote it I thought I might as well share it here. Ultimately, if we want to know what should be cut from primary, we should probably ope.

Thoughts of an every day teacher. Long, long ago, in a land far, far away, a little girl called Hope lived with her cousins, Mara, Sophia and David. They lived in an old, run-down castle. Although they were surrounded by a beautiful land, the cousins were trapped behind the huge castle walls. Every night they gathered round the fire to tell stories, reminding each other of what life could be like beyond the walls, in hope that they would make it over there one day. Over many days, Hope nurtured her seeds.

The lunar month which began in mid-June this year is the Islamic month of Ramadan, the month of fasting and charity. This is a story to mark Ramadan, and one day in the life of Basima. At forty five, she is still unmarried, on the shelf, and as the youngest daughter of a large Syrian family, she has become the sole carer of her elderly, difficult mother. A collection of stories,. Was published by SUNY Press in 2000.

The Diary of a Not So Ordinary Boy. My world, its ups and downs. I never thought it would be me. To put it in the kettle, and Sam has experimented with putting frankfurter sausages in the frying pan, the maternal bosom swelling with maternal pride at not only that, but that the Nigella cookbook with the correct recipe was open on the worktop. They have grown, in independence and stature, before my eyes. School, where it is so much smaller, meal times are social times, an opportunity to pr.