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Dare to be Different: Failure is Never quite so Frightening as Regret.

In the Words of J.F.Kennedy

Intelligence and skill can only function at the peak of their capacity when the body is healthy and strong.

July 2nd 2014


Schools to Blame as Schools Riot

Sack Bad Teachers Before They Start

Church school head sacked ageing

teachers and replaced them with

busty young women!

Ofsted to Inspect Teachers Dress Code.

Those pesky Koreans, Finns and Kiwis outwit us again. But will we do better next time round?

Teachers wear bullet proof vests to stop unruly pupils biting them

Schools Let Learners Down as Exam Results Soar

Call me Sir! Former troops recruited as teachers in crackdown on trendy

schools

PASS THE TEST AND WIN PROMOTION

More than half of teachers are unable to name three

poets!

Daily Mail The Board

Game START

An Inspector Calls


In the Words of Andy Hargreaves Good teaching is not just a matter of being efficient, developing confidence,

mastering technique and possessing the right kind of knowledge. Good teaching involves emotional work. It is infused with desire, mission, creativity,

challenge and joy. Good teaching is profoundly an emotional activity.

Cause + Effect =

From Classroom to Childhood


In the Words of Stephen Moss The natural world doesn't come with an instruction leaflet, so it teaches you to use your creative imagination. When you build a den with your mates when you're nine years old, you learn teamwork - you disagree with each other, you have arguments,

you resolve them, you work together again - it's like a team-building course, only you did it when you were nine. The the growing dissociation of children from the natural

world and internment in the ‘cotton wool culture’ of indoor parental guidance impairs their capacity to learn through experience.

Speed Dating

Become the Ofsted Inspector?

And the childhood memory

And the tabloid papers?


In the Words of Michael Korda The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while

quietly playing by your own.

The Diffendoofer Top Five


1. Standards are high due to consistent high expectations.

2. Teachers successfully take risks using highly effective imaginative teaching strategies allowing children to learn well

3. Head self evaluates and knows how well the children are learning.

4. The curriculum is strong because based on the needs and the interests of the children.

5. The children are proud of their school, they respect and like their teachers and their teachers like them.

And the school knows how to celebrate its successes.

A Plea for PE

Wembley, Wizards, Warlocks, Waltzes, Wheels, Wickets and Wobbly Knees


In the Words of Thomas Jefferson

Exercise and recreation are as necessary as

reading. I will rather say more necessary,

because health is worth more than learning.

The school’s curriculum promotes and sustains a thirst for knowledge and a love of learning. It covers a wide range of subjects and provides opportunities for academic, technical and sporting excellence. It has a very positive impact on all pupils’ behaviour and safety, and contributes very well to pupils’ academic achievement, their physical wellbeing,

and their spiritual, moral, social and cultural development.


The Fourth Generation

Curriculum

Wilder themes that bring engagement and imagination

because teachers are not afraid to take unusual ideas

and run with them.

Deeper and longer lasting learning.

Focus on what the learner will be doing for themselves.

Greater focus on the language of learning

Imagining how learning can create a better world

Real interesting hard stuff

Children constantly learning in collaboration

In the Words of

Walter Anderson

Nothing diminishes

anxiety faster than

action.


Fire and Ice: Going for Goals The Almost True Story of the Jamaican Bobsleigh

Team

In the Words of George Bernard Shaw What we want to see is the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not

knowledge in pursuit of the child.


The Five Minds for the Future

The Fourth Generation Curriculum over time will create:

The Disciplined Mind

(that is schooled in the knowledge and skills of the key subjects)

The Synthesising Mind (That can see the links between the subjects)

The Creating Mind (That is capable of asking new questions and finding

imaginative answers) The Respectful Mind

(Which shows a respect for different people and different cultures) The Ethical Mind

(Which enables a person to behave responsibly as a worker and an individual)

In the Words of a Hebrew Proverb

Do not confine your children to your own learning for they are

born of a different time.

So when were you up to the knees in tadpoles?


In the Words of Ofsted Memorable experiences lead to memorable learning.


In the Words of Michael Korda The key to success is to pretend you are playing to someone

else’s rules whilst really playing to your own rules.

Traditionalist or Radical?


The only thing we have is a story to be told!

Does your school pass the three generations

test ?

In the Words of George Bernard Shaw What we need to see is the child in pursuit of knowledge and not

knowledge in pursuit of the child.


In the Words of Jonathan Smith As a teacher you are not only a writer, but an actor, a parent, a director and an

improviser – its not so much a Hollywood epic as a low budget movie with a hand held camera.


In the Words of Colin Powell

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier. The ripple effect of enthusiasm

is awesome. So is the impact of cynicism and pessimism. Spare me the

grim litany of the realist and give me the unrealistic aspirations of the

optimist any day.

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