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Sounds from beyond the Shed – Week 89

March 23, 2023 Keith Hargreaves 0
Soft skills for an employable, healthy future This last week has seen the school return (at last) to showcasing its musicians in a formal free-to-enter concert and this time the music was interspersed with dramatic pieces […]
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Sounds from beyond the Shed – Week 88

March 14, 2023 Keith Hargreaves 0
Art not just for art’s sake but for all of our sakes. Working in education means I regularly brush up against things that are not mainstream once school days are done. By this I mean regularly […]
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Sounds from beyond the Shed – Week 87

March 7, 2023 Keith Hargreaves 0
We can’t blame Covid for everything. As I start to think about the end of next term and my finishing full time teaching I am inevitably drawn to reflect a little bit on how things have […]
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Sounds from beyond the Shed – Week 86

March 3, 2023 Keith Hargreaves 0
Back in harness… So half term over and despite having a back as painful as a nail being driven into an eye when undergoing physio I did have a a restful time as much as my […]
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The View From Across La Manche #12 – From our own correspondent

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Plus ça change… Quite a contrast between last month’s featured article photo and this month’s! It seems like it was full on winter only yesterday and now spring is making a definite attempt to show up. […]

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