Tag: reading
Read A Million Words in Poole
The visit I made this week was part of the Read A Million Words in Poole campaign, which has been spearheaded by the pasionate Library Services Development Manager, John Lane. Frustrated that the Summer Reading Challenge fades out at the start of the new school year, he wanted something more permanent and continuing and so…
Whitchurch School
On Monday I went to Whitchurch School, near Ross on Wye. Small groups of children had been brought along from other local primaries fro the morning. These children were all blessed with dyslexia and other similar language gifts. Am I being over-politically correct saying that dyslexia is a blessing? I think not. Of course in…
Time Travel, Quantum Physics and Writing Stories
My dear son, Ed, came with us to see the Time Traveller’s Wife, last night. Afterwards, he had quite a lot to say about the practicalities of time travel and the way it was represented in the film. Everything he said was right, but then everything he said was wrong. He was only prepared to…