Bacc for the future
I’ve just attended a House of Commons debate on creativity in the curriculum, where a good number of Labour MPs and one Conservative MP argued for the inclusion of expressive […]
I’ve just attended a House of Commons debate on creativity in the curriculum, where a good number of Labour MPs and one Conservative MP argued for the inclusion of expressive […]
I’ve been thinking about chronology in History. The new National Curriculum for England will be implemented from September 2014, for Key Stages 1 to 3. One of the most significant […]
This is a brief thought in response to this morning’s Start the Week, which tackled the familiar topic of the teaching of History in our schools. As this topic has […]
This is my take on the proposed National Curriculum for England and the manner in which it has been revised. I should first outline my views on the purpose and […]
It’s taken me some time to respond to this issue because I wasn’t sure what I thought. The issue in question is the valuable campaign to increase the prevalence of […]
Michael Gove has announced at the Conservative Party conference (2011) that Primary Schools should teach Modern Foreign Languages to children from 5 years old, and that he is prepared to […]
September is the ‘back to school’ month, a particularly pressured time for children making the transition from primary to secondary school. In the UK, this usually means coping with multiple […]
Originally posted December 2009: Frank Furedi in ‘Turning Children into Orwellian Eco-Spies’ warns that there are resonances of Stalinism in the new orthodoxy by which we use children to teach adults about […]
Update note in 2011: It’s interesting to go through the process of deciding whether old posts have any current validity, or whether the fact that they are so out of […]