AUK’s Keith Hargreaves’s weekly education column, with the help of some good, bad and ugly americana
It’s funny the things you do… As a pastoral leader (unpack that one if you dare) in a school you spend a lot of time developing empathetic relationships with pupils in order to gain an understanding […]
Faces from the past. One of the pleasures of teaching is meeting students that you have taught when they’ve stopped being irritating, needy little blighters and become their own, individual human beings. That’s not to say […]
And we’re back in room… So there it is gone but not forgotten, just. The summer holidays are rightly cherished by all those in the teaching profession. By the end of the academic year tempers are […]
Alice Cooper is singing in my head. As the unwinding begins and the end of term becomes a matter of days not weeks the school enjoys an orgy of expeditions and trips that constitutes an activity […]
Looking forward to reading for pleasure and stilling the whirling head. One of the delights of the much criticised but definitely needed summer holidays enjoyed by those in the teaching profession (and in doing this we […]
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