Category: Blogging
Saturday snippets 22 November 2014
{driving} I missed driving when I couldn’t drive. This week I have driven more than I want to, with small children. It reminded me of commuting, and it wasn’t fun. The positive side is that we can and do choose not to have that many weeks like this. And also that it’s a choice. {feeling}…
So Nick Gibb has been to China
He’s the Education minister apparently (his arrival completely passed me by). And he’s returned to tell teachers to copy China – and ditch trendy teaching for ‘chalk and talk’. (Telegraph link, daily mail headline.) It’s all about the rote learning you see, that’s the only difference. He somehow didn’t notice the smaller class size or…
Saturday Snippets 15 November 2014
{thinking} it’s been an odd week. From last weekend in London, birthday celebrations for Smallest on Monday, attempting so much stuff and managing so little, via a surge of grief on Thursday and then family gathering today. I could do with a holiday. On an island. With someone else doing the cooking. Please? {grieving} again,…
Saturday Snippets 8 November 2014 the blogfest edition
{sitting} in a hotel room and breathing. Fabulous day. But a bit tiring. A lot tiring. OK, I’m wiped, but then I have been up since 5.45 and there may have been gin 😉 {musing} about everything I heard today. Too much to sort out to blog just now I’m afraid. But oh my Francesca…
Saturday snippets 1 November 2014
{watching} Casper. We started off watching Wheels on Meals, which I was expected to be standard Jackie Chan/ Sammo Hung fare, but it turned out to actually be in chinese. After 10 minutes of Smallest requesting Small to read all the subtitles, we quit and found Casper just about to start on TV. So it…
Saturday Snippets 25 October 2014
{watching} Cast Away. Tom Hanks really is a very good actor. Lots of opportunities for education too, as we discussed his choices throughout, how best to make fire, and what might have been in that unopened package. {reading} not a lot right now. I’m feeling a touch adrift. Big got a good looking book in…
News: Dept of Education official fails to understand concept of average
This isn’t really news, because it’s not new. It seems to be fairly endemic throughout all levels of government. For example, this wonderful exchange between the Chairman of the Select Committee and the then Education Secretary, Michael Gove. Q98 Chair: One is: if “good” requires pupil performance to exceed the national average, and if all…
Saturday snippets 18 October 2014
{Watching} Earth to echo for family film night. Full review and giveaway coming soon. {Enjoying} yet more late sun. I got two whole loads of washing dried today. That’s a lot of washing for October. *and* I spotted when it was about to rain and got it in in time. I think I’ve finally got…
Have you got your Reading Eyes open?
I read an excerpt of Frank Cottrell Boyce’s David Fickling lecture in the guardian yesterday, and it stuck with me all day. I have to say I think he’s completely wrong. Schools aren’t destroying the power of stories. It’s far far worse than that. The particular bit of his lecture echoing round my brain is…
Motherhood #voiceofmums
Motherhood. It means so many different things to different people. For me, when I think of motherhood, I think of that moment when I first held each child in my arms, and it felt like something physically rearranged inside me to fit this new person into my heart. It’s a powerful emotion. At that moment…
