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• Thanksgiving Lunch at my Son’s School.

  
  Chris Leckness is a Geek — Authority: 131
  Good Times, Bad Food. Ok, it was awful, but some of it tasted like the milk carton my chocolate milk came in. Believe it or not, their steamed veggies were on par with good restaurants. I could have replaced the turkey and dressing with it and been better off. Anyhow, it was about spending some time with the boy, not ...
  2 days ago

• Primary School Pupil Safety

  
  Cllr Fraser Macpherson - LibDem Councillor for Dundee's West End - www.dundeewestend.com — Authority: 430
  I am pleased to have been advised by the City Council that, following my raising the condition of the Wilkie’s Lane car park at St Joseph’s Primary School with the Education Department, it was agreed to remove potholes and smooth the surface. There were concerns that the poor car park surface was discouraging ...
  2 days ago

• Should a teacher call a child a "midget"?

  
  School Gate - Times Online - WBLG — Authority: 539
  This morning I have an interesting tale to share with you. It concerns a nine-year-old boy who, although lovely, clever and talented (he plays a mean game of table tennis) is rather on the small side. It doesnt bother him greatly, or at least he tries not to let it do so. He has lots of friends, is doing well at ...
  2 days ago

• Electric racing cars to in-house TV: Council Awards recognise Argyll schools’ achievements

  
  For Argyll — Authority: 443
  You only have to read the list of projects and achievements receiving the 2009 Argyll and Bute Education Awards to grasp the spectrum of initiatives in Argyll schools.Dunoon certainly ran a flag up the flagpole for its achievements, with Dunoon Grammar taking two awards and Dunoon Primary School taking one of the big ...
  3 days ago

• The reality of life with a child who has Aspergers - and the educational issues it involves

  
  School Gate - Times Online - WBLG — Authority: 539
  I write about education daily and the same issues come up - how to best educate our children, how to improve discipline in schools and how we ensure that our child gets into the school which is just right for them (and what we will do to achieve this). What often comes across is a palpable sense of worry - and thats ...
  3 days ago

• Teacher drinks in class, hammers 12-year girl for opposing

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 718
  Lucknow, Nov 12 (IANS) A 12-year-old girl was allegedly beaten by a teacher in an Uttar Pradesh’s state-run school as she opposed his drinking liquor in the classroom, police said Thursday.The Class 7 girl of the Hanumantpur upper primary school in Etawah district, some 300 km from Lucknow, is undergoing treatment ...
  3 days ago

• Letters: George Baines obituary

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 984
  Vernon Hale writes: George Baines (obituary, 28 October) was a mentor of significance to many including myself, a former Oxfordshire headteacher. Central to the development of Georges own philosophy was the charismatic and influential HMI Robin Tanner. I recall the great attention to detail and discrimination ...
  5 days ago

• A teacher asks: what can we do about education? Is the solution more pay for teachers? More grammar schools? Corporal punishment? What do you think?

  
  School Gate - Times Online - WBLG — Authority: 539
  Cathy Beck is a regular visitor to School Gate. As a teacher herself, she often finds it hard to deal with the vitriol regularly given to those in her profession.So, she asks (and its a question on a grand scale), what’s to be done about education? Id urge you to read her piece, as it raises, and attempts to ...
  5 days ago

• Can synthetic phonics be the key to teaching children how to read?

  
  School Gate - Times Online - WBLG — Authority: 539
  School in the 21st century is very different to school back in the olden days of the 20th. That may sound obvious, but many people cant seem to accept that times have changed. Just read the visitors to this blog. Theyre always mentioning the (better) ways in which they were taught, the (much improved) discipline ...
  6 days ago

• Questions, questions…

  
  6000 miles from civilisation... — Authority: 129
  I will be expecting a lot of them this evening at the JDI charity quiz evening at Cafe Roux in Noordhoek  this evening. The money raised will be shared between the Bulungula Incubator in the Transkei and Ferndale Primary in Ottery. The Bulungula Incubator strives to be a catalyst for the creation of a vibrant ...
  1 week ago

• Compulsory sex education and PSHE? Quite right, Mr Balls

  
  School Gate - Times Online - WBLG — Authority: 539
  I like to be balanced on this blog, so, after criticising him recently, I  have to say that Im probably on the side of Ed Balls today. No, dont faint in horror. I make my decisions on issues based on the facts as I see them. When it comes to todays announcement on compulsory PHSE (Personal, Social, Health and ...
  1 week ago

• Help find Madeleine McCann and other missing children

  
  'You've got your hands full' — Authority: 117
  MUM bloggers are being asked to help publicise this video in the hunt for Madeleine McCann. As the appeal slips further from the top of news agendas, the hope is that some momentum can be maintained. The video is from the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre. If you are interested in learning more ...
  1 week ago

• Bike It Breakfast

  
  Leah Fraser — Authority: 130
  Up early again this morning to attend the ‘Bike It Breakfast’ at Overchurch Junior School in Moreton with Steve Williams our candidate for Moreton West and Saughall Massie.  The Bike It Breakfast follows ‘Walk to School Week’ and the school’s status as a ‘Bike It’ school to encourage children to cycle ...
  1 week ago

• Vacancy at Frankfurt International School (F.I.S.)

  
  Pension Sprachschule Maria Shipley — Authority: 422
  Posted 3 Nov 2009 Applications are invited for the following position: * Teacher Assistant at the primary school effective 1 December 2009 Applications should be in writing and directed to the appropriate principal with copy to Rita De La Cruz within seven working days of this notice.
  1 week ago

• School admissions, some good decisions, why Ed Balls is wrong, and a case of missing the point...

  
  School Gate - Times Online - WBLG — Authority: 539
  Today the chief School Adjudicator, Ian Craig, published his annual report . He had been asked by Ed Balls to look specifically at three areas - random allocation in admission arrangements (i.e. lotteries), what should happen to twins/children from multiple births when it comes to school allocations and what should ...
  1 week ago

• Do schools need libraries and librarians? A teaching assistant and award-winning librarian explains why they do...

  
  School Gate - Times Online - WBLG — Authority: 539
  Many primary schools have libraries, but often these potentially fantastic sources of inspiration and imagination are not utilised properly. No ones really in charge of them and children receive little guidance on what they might enjoy reading. Some schools have no libraries at all - its argued that they are a luxury ...
  1 week ago

• When should children start school?

  
  20 east — Authority: 416
  Whilst on a business trip last year I took the opportunity to stay with some friends of ours who live in London. Their child was 4yrs old at the time and I was quite shocked at breakfast-time to see him all dressed up in full school uniform being taken for a day of “proper” education. It was such a contrast to ...
  2 weeks ago

• Hopes for new school crossing patroller in Blackness Road

  
  Cllr Fraser Macpherson - LibDem Councillor for Dundee's West End - www.dundeewestend.com — Authority: 430
  Dundee City Council has advised me that it hopes to provide a new school crossing patrol on Blackness Road, following my raising residents’ requests for this safety measure. I am pleased about this, coming soon after resolution of the school crossing patroller problem at Hawkhill. Blackness Road at the Kelso Street ...
  2 weeks ago

• Parkfields condemns the State for allowing CJ Botman to plea bargain away his responsibility to pay us back 2 million rand

  
  Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign — Authority: 505
  Parkfields (Newfields) AEC Press Release 30 October 2009 To: All media and civil society From: Parkfields Community Representative Committee (formerly Newfields Village CRC) Re: Condemnation of the latest postponement allowed by the state prosecutor in the case against C.J. Botman without input from our ...
  2 weeks ago

• How did you learn to tell the time? Heres a new method...

  
  School Gate - Times Online - WBLG — Authority: 539
  We all have to learn to tell the time, and many of us probably cant remember how we ever managed to do so. What you might recall is how difficult it was, and this is something Ive been reminded of in recent years as my children have started learning about clocks. After all, its hard to do things in 60s. It would ...
  2 weeks ago

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