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AUK’s Keith Hargreaves’s weekly education column, with the help of some good, bad and ugly americana

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Sounds from beyond the Shed – Week 59

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Half term been and gone. So it came and went in a flash and left a nasty sting in the tail, but while it lasted half term was a thing of joy. Most of it spent […]
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Sounds from beyond the Shed – Week 58

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Half term and festival time. I have dragged my sorry arse to the end of the week and cannot communicate how grateful I am for half term. This term has been full of all the usual […]
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Sounds from beyond the Shed – Week 57

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No words can suffice.. I received a call on Saturday telling that one of my students who had left the school not 5 years ago had been found dead. It was shocking thing to hear. The […]
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Sounds from beyond the Shed – Week 55

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Education way beyond the classroom and whisper it… perhaps more important   Throughout my life in education I have firmly believed that at least 50% of my job as an educator is to enable students to […]
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Sounds from beyond the Shed – Week 54

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God I’ve missed this…. So it happened this week. My last indoor gig was on the 19th March 2020 The Felice Brothers in Cambridge. It was small, intimate and alternately heartbreaking and raucously joyous. Everything live […]

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