Sunday 24 May 2009
Saturday 23 May 2009
Midnight saturday
Reykjavik after a most excellent meal in a wonderful eclectic
restaurant. Only cost £40 each.....
Friday 22 May 2009
Friday 8 May 2009
Schooling in the modern age
I have been absolutely blown away today by seeing rosebridge school in Wigan. The headteacher is obviously an inspiring leader and her (and her staff's) accomplishments over the last five years are stunning!
I get most of my modern day schooling insight from Waterloo road, which I'm sketchy about watching at best.
This however, is on a different level entirely. Exam scores have risen from 9% to 70% and bad behaviour has been rooted out.
More impressive is the hands on facilities they have built. The school has taken over the factory next door to provide construction courses while agricultural land is used to teach students how to and the economics of farm. In partnership with higher education (myerscough college) the school is linked into the next steps of students' education. There are other businesses onsite to give students real life experiences and a whole host of schemes to provide individual learning.
The whole thing sounds amazing and light years away from the type of schooling I had as a child. How cool does all this sound?!?!??
I don't know what else to say without falling into gigantic mass of hyperboe, but suffice to say I was moved to write about this amazing school.
SH
Thursday 7 May 2009
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