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Quick – before you read any further – look at the picture above and describe it in no more than three words. In August this year I’ll have been married, happily married, for nineteen years. However, despite living with the same lady for so long it appears that we still see things very differently. We […]

I teach in a big school and that means some of us teach more than one class in the same year group. I have two year nine classes. I teach the very top set in the year and also the (for want of a better word) bottom set. Consequently I see year nine as a […]

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The Government has recently announced plans (and funding) to “Instil character in pupils.” The current buzzword is “Grit”, and for me it conjures up images of a posse of young John Waynes swaggering off into the sunset telling their mates to “get off your horse and drink your milk.” All noble stuff and it does […]