Tag: Education

  • NewSpeak – English is no longer for the English

    Frightening things are going on in English primary schools. Never mind the destructive stress-testing of both teachers and pupils, a new, sinister hand is upon the education tiller. Our glorious language is under threat from the Department of Education who are devising new forms of grammar and determining that their new rules are right and anything else is wrong. Pass or fail. Primary school children…

  • How to Draw the Apollo Command Module Spacecraft

    I wanted to be an astronaut when I was a kid and drew space stuff all the time. I’ve started a pinterest board for primary/elementary school space times and wanted to do this video for that board. See the board here.

  • Drawing Washing Machines with Year 2

    I’ve been working with the Archbishop Rowan Williams Church in Wales School for a few weeks now, making books out of the stories we came up with its three different year groups. I’ll explain more about the project later. Yesterday the Year 2 children worked really hard all afternoon and we finally finished our books – hooray! One of…