It is a mixture of personal anecdotes, observations, skites about my son, Thomas and sometimes some things vaguely intelligent. For much more intelligent comments on education, social software and the like check out the blogs of my colleagues at www.core-ed.net
We spent the Sunday morning in Brecon, and watched the parade of soldiers from the local barracks through the town to the War Memorial, and then followed the parade up the hill to the beautiful Brecon Cathedral for the Remembrance Day ceremony.
Brecon is home to The Royal Regiment of Wales and a company from [...]
Due to the scarcity of accommodation in Cardiff on match day, and the very high price of anything that was available for that night, I ended up reliving my past and resorted to the YHA near Brecon for the weekend.
After years of staying in hotels (admittedly some more dodgy than others) being back into an [...]
Whilst we were in Cardiff I dragged Derek to the Dr Who exhibition- a good way of staying out of the rain, and for gaining some street cred with Thomas and his friends as well.
Thomas and I are big Dr Who fans and it was good to see some of the props and costumes from [...]
3 September 1939- 8 May 1945 (in Europe at least)
Lest we forget
National’s rational for the introduction of National Standards has focussed on the fact that they will be able to identify identification of students who are failing, with the plan that there can be targeted support for these children.
Given that the UK has had national standards for many years I was interested to see that [...]
