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home educated children steal school bus!

By admin | Published September 23, 2007

An education authority spokesperson said today, “this would never have happened if the children had been attending school (the article would have had a different title) – it is disgraceful”. The home educating mother of these dangerous, free thinking kids has admitted she was drinking tea and laughing raucously at the time of the incident. [...]

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comments on education

By admin | Published August 2, 2007

Both from the Independent. Now I have only glanced at this years Big Brother, haven’t got into it at all, mainly because any small snatches I’ve seen seemed shallow beyond belief. However some interesting points are made in this article: Big Brother and the Failed Generation Grampian may have the greatest success in those league tables [...]

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Jodi Picoult’s Nineteen Minutes

By admin | Published May 11, 2007

Never devoted a whole blog post to one book before but this one deserves it. It’s a chillingly accurate description of secondary school bullying - based on school social constructs – right down to the useless bullying policies, selectively blind staff, headmaster in blustering denial… Thank you for writing it Jodi – people need to wake up [...]

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piano metaphor

By admin | Published April 24, 2007

Been playing this one over in my mind (yes it’s going to be fun). The previous owners of the house gave us their old piano – as you know if you’ve been paying attention. If not – then that’s no golden time for you this week :evil: Sorry, back to metaphor, or actually analogy as it’s [...]

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frogs again

By admin | Published April 12, 2007

Education Failures are a National Tragedy from the Telegraph (seen at aspie home education – such a wonderful source of news!) – some straight talking, no misuse of the word excellence at all! Thank you Cherryann for sending us this elements vid from teachersTV – we all enjoyed that :) Lots of other interesting stuff on there – watched [...]

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you may turn your paper over now…

By admin | Published March 29, 2007

Printed out some graph paper as weve finished the jotters like that and off we went. Did the equations here and I think everyone understood it quite well. It’s with something like this that the one to one – or one to two in our case – teaching really come into it’s own. Any little mistake [...]

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some stats

By Lucy | Published February 22, 2007

shamelessly lifted from the aeuk blog but they are really worth repeating, from the recent Unicef report: More than 360,000 children injured in schools each year 450,000 children bullied in school last year At least 16 children commit suicide each year as a result of school bullying An estimated 1 million children truant every year Treasury [...]

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Spirited Away

By admin | Published October 31, 2006

Nice Halloween. Started with a reminder of how bad rush hour traffic is in Aberdeen (how could we have done this everyday for so long???). Went to see Spirited Away with National Films Schools Week. Film was very good, in Japanese with subtitles – suitably scary and monster filled for today! Not sure where to start [...]

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Halloween quizzes and stories

By admin | Published October 30, 2006

Virtual pumpkin carving - intend doing the real thing today too… and this falling sand game is a bit odd but very ‘moreish’ – just play with it and see! Halloween quizzes – Easy, Tricky or Fiendish - sent by my sister Kids wrote spooky stories this morning. Both very good. Was especially impressed by [...]

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