Tag: Education

  • Back To School

    I distinctly remember that the “back to school” signs didn’t go up in the shops until about two weeks before the end of the holidays when I was young. When the signs went up, my heart would sink and the remainder of the holidays would be tainted with the oncoming threat of school and the…

  • The Wonderful Game of Pirates

    If you read my entry about School Stacking Chairs on Monday, you may wonder about the game of Pirates that I mentioned. I don’t know if everyone played it or if it was peculiar to my school, which was a boarding prep school in Surrey. It was Mr Turner, the new PE teacher, fresh from…

  • Anthony Browne – Authors in Schools

    Dear, lovely, sensible Anthony Browne, Children’s Laureate, had to put his two pennyworth into the Authors in Schools debate. I suspect he would rather have not got involved, but his position means that the press will come to him first for a comment. I think he mediated his way through the minefield quite well and…