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Interest led work activities
I was chatting to a mum today about life as working mother. What she use to do, what she’d like to do. What I do, which took a wee while to explain
She described what I do as similar to the child led education approach that our boys experience at Lewes New School. Which [...]
Ch-ch-changes…!
Ok, so my kids can lay their claim to fame. Their lovely school put a lot of love, energy and hardwork into creating the Changes song by David Bowie. It’s been made into a video and will very cooly be release on iTunes in mid September.
How cool is that?
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unschool.me
I’ve started a blog about different ways of learning and education over at unschool.me
It’s more of a note taking exercise at the moment. Stuff I see, hear, read….
Over 50% rejects acceptable?
In 2007 just 44% of young people achieved what the govenment considers to be the baseline: five GCSE passes including English and maths…school is dramatically failing, event at this most basic of tasks. Any manufacturer who consistently produced over 50% of rejects would not stay in business for long – source What’s the Point of [...]
Home education uproar
Home Education has always been on my list of options for my boys. Although I opted for Lewes New School in the end (which is fab) it’s still on my list…just not now, got too much on my plate at the moment.
I’m not shy in saying that I think the educational system here mostly sucks. [...]
Making a big deal on child led education
The BBC say:
When given a chance to let their minds go, it’s amazing what children can come up with.
In Bristol, a special style of lesson has been developed precisely to give pupils in Key Stage 3 (11 to 14-year-olds) an opportunity to further investigate questions and issues like this.
In these lessons, called Enquiring Minds, pupils [...]
Child led education
Interested in a different approach to education for the wee ones? Lewes New School (that my Sherry Juniors go to) use a ‘child led’ approach. There’s an article about the approach and them here.
An idea with old geek toys
My son recently started at Lewes New School where there was a request for a donation for a digital camera for some of the children to use for a school project.
I didn’t have a spare camera, but thought “I bet one of my geek friends does”. So I tweeted the request.
I got a couple [...]
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