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Sounds from beyond the Shed – Week 67
A busy, busy week … as usual! Once into the rhythm of the term it becomes a helter-skelter of deadline chasing and plate spinning – just like every other job involving working with children and their […]
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View from Across La Manche #8 – from our own correspondent
The sun has set on summer. Despite the continuing high temperatures and bright sunny days, summer is officially over. So it’s nice to be back, ruminating on life here in France. Once the 1st of September […]
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Sounds from beyond the Shed – Week 66
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 […]
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Sounds from beyond the Shed – Week 65
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 […]
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Sounds from beyond the Shed – Week 64
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 […]