Tag: Education
Dark Claw Drawings
Having checked that it’s okay to post work done by year five of Whitchurch School, where I’m working on an extended writing project, I can now upload some of the drawing they did after I showed them how to draw Dark Claw. I suppose it would be interesting to find a control group and get…
Education. Education. Education.
I’ve just been reading an article in the Times by Sir Bob Balchin, pro-Chancellor of Brunel University, pointing out the futility of the Queen’s Speech guarantee of a right to a “good” education. Isn’t this what the Government promised us in 97 and have spent billions on in the meantime. One paragraph made me gasp.…
YouTube – What a Waste
I spent the morning with my year five class at Whitchurch School, yesterday (notice that “my” class!). We tried to get this blog up on the whiteboard, but wordpress.com is blocked at county level – so is YouTube. Beth, the year five teacher, told me they can’t even access BBC wildlife videos. We all know…