Musings of a pragmatic teacher

(Not my slippers) As a teacher I spend lots of my time thinking about, researching and planning for ways to improve both the...

There is a lot of Twitter talk at the moment about the pop culture of motivational posters. Society in general but perhaps teaching more spe...

For our school Parents Evening has come and gone. The decision was made a few years ago that staff would prefer to 'get it out of the ...

We have all heard the expression and I am sure the song 'Life is a Roller coaster.' We can all relate to it because life is fu...

                                      It would be fair to say that I am not a fan of Ofsted. I don't think many people in education...

I began my blogging journey back in August 2013.The  main idea behind this was that it would allow me time to reflect upon my tea...

The recent Ebola crisis in Africa has brought home to me how, as humans, we rely upon communication in all of its forms: we communic...