Reading Time: 5 minutes I’ve done something very different with my Year 10 this year. Rather than getting them to read the book in … More A Jekyll and Hyde cold-read walkthrough
A-Level Results day for department heads
Reading Time: 5 minutes Exploring exam results can be an Alice-in-Wonderland sized rabbit hole. Those who like data can end up with a thousand … More A-Level Results day for department heads
A radical opportunity (or, if I were EdSec…)
Reading Time: 3 minutes I’d love to see what other peoples’ thoughts are on the below…I’m sure we’ve all had that thought ‘if I … More A radical opportunity (or, if I were EdSec…)
“Be a lady” – the contradictory messages girls get every day
Reading Time: 2 minutes This video from Girls, Girls, Girls magazine is pretty powerful: There’s some discussion about the magazine promoting it and whether … More “Be a lady” – the contradictory messages girls get every day
Little Women review
Reading Time: 5 minutes I can’t remember what age I was when I read Little Women but I remember the edition. It was a hardback, … More Little Women review
“Books are mirrors, windows, or sliding-glass doors”
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Rudine Sims Bishop [the author and educator] says that books are either mirrors, windows or sliding-glass doors, and that’s important in the act of resistance. You need that mirror to see yourself, to know what you can be and know what you are. And then you need that window to see into someone else’s life so you can understand what’s happening around you in the world that you may not notice at first glance. And you need the sliding-glass door so that you can step into someone else’s life and walk in with some empathy and use that empathy to make yourself heard.