How do you make children articulate? It’s a long story …
I don’t know whether to laugh or cry – is Mr Bruton-Simmonds for real, or is this a very early April Fool’s Joke?? And what’s an educationalist?
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3 responses to “How do you make children articulate? It's a long story …”
I liked “…saying that busy parents are to blame because they do not spend enough time talking and reading with them.” Nice to know that schools aren’t to blame…for anything, ever. Maybe if the Government stopped encouraging everyone to get the children into “childcare” they would have more time.
Sadly, this is for real. My m-i-l who spent her career developing an entire early years curriculum out of MMM and Alison Uttley books took early retirement partly in disgust at tne introduction of (il)literacy hour which squeezed out any time to read proper books to children, and as she has kept contact with the inner city school where she worked she has been entirely unsurprised by the corresponding fall in literacy there.
I found that copy of Tizard and Hughes btw. It was hidden under a pile of stuff on the coffee table. I’ll try and remember to bring it on Saturday
Well, Big is having The Wizard of Oz as her bedtime story atm, although I’m afraid I haven’t been preceding it with a minutes burst of classical music…I have extremely fond memories of stories from primary school – one of the first things Tim ever bought for me (thus introducing me to the joys of online book shopping 😉 ) was “The last of the great whangdoodles” that I had searched for irl bookshops hopelessly for years.
Do you think they’d do better in schools if they stopped trying so hard, these educationalists?