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Introductory piece for the FED conference on rural, small and coastal schools
I started teaching in 1979. I can remember distinctly the primary school hall filled with buckets when it rained. I certainly recall the 48 children I taught in what was Junior 4 but is now Year 6. I also recall never seeing the headteacher at all, or another senior manager see me teach during my first year.
Induction isn’t quite what it used to be
I am writing this open letter as a way of thanking those of you who supported, encouraged and challenged me during my induction period with the inspectorate. I didn’t realise at the time how effective it was and how it invaluable it was in enabling me to better understand the breadth and variety of education provision.
Choices a poem by Barry Norris, award winning poet and brother of Frank
the space in which a child can grow the hole through which a child must go the height to which a mind can reach the syllabus to learn and teach the courage of a difficult truth the accelerated flight from youth the beauty of discordant song the rigidities of right and...