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Mashup Poetry

Kristian Still 1 Mar ’11 9 Apr ’11

The Ballad of Charlotte Dymond was our focus for 2 weeks. We read, watched and storyboard the poem, with a collection of staged photographs taken by the students available for students to use on the VLE. Over half term, the …

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When to Abandon Lessons Plans

Kristian Still 9 Jan ’11 9 Jan ’11

The 7a to Hillsborough The first lesson of a new scheme of work. A shiny new Year 7 Scheme of Work and new topic, Narrative Poetry. We had organised a few students transfers and it was on with the work. …

I still expect the carpet to be pulled out from under me3 Nov ’24
This post is written for a friend. The point of desperation is often the point of truth. He wrote. How do your move forward, when you still expect the carpet to be pulled out from under you? If you can move at all? Let alone …
No rescuing3 Nov ’24
“Do not do for someone, that they can do for themselves,” is a teaching sentiment that I have long held important. It sits along side the notion of “not rescuing,” our learner / children / colleagues and modelling, as a teacher or experienced learner, what …
Teams – Day 3 (part 2)2 Nov ’24
Prioritising time to write has not made it to the top of the priorities list until today (the end of half-term). That is a failing on my part. With hindsight, I should have planned and scheduled less. I am not comfortable accepting that “writing, thinking …
Yuimaru – ‘a circle of people’26 Oct ’24
It started with reading sports team Coach biographies. John Wooden, Phil Jackson, Mike Krzyzewski (Basketball), Sir Alex Ferguson, Johan Cruyff, Anson Dorrance (Football), Sir Clive Woodward and James Kerr’s Legacy (Rugby) and Dave Brailsford (Cycling) and there were plenty others. It turns out, many of …