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@jshe: “I am always doing that which I cannot do in order than I may learn how to do it.” Picasso
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“The role of the teacher is to create the conditions for invention rather than provide ready-made knowledge.” —Seymour Papert
Introduction to Seymour Papert(from his own website – http://www.papert.org/): People laughed at Seymour Papert in the sixties when he talked about children using computers as instruments for learning and for enhancing creativity. The idea of an inexpensive personal computer was then … Continue reading
“Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it.”
Appointment to Assistant Headship, Claires Court Junior Boys, Mr Eric Leuzinger BEd As our school community knows, Jeff Watkins, Headmaster of our Junior Boys school is to retire at the end of this academic year, and his successor is Justin … Continue reading
Digital Newsletter Monday 10 February 2014 – The Rising Damp edition (fingers firmly crossed).
“Avast there me hearties” or some such Tosh of a greeting, from the Island Republic that is East Maidenhead. Those that know the senior boys site of Claires Court will know that it nestles gently some 800 yards away from … Continue reading
7 days – it’s always 7 days – and what happens when the ‘phone doesn’t ring
One of the Open secrets within our school is that we are due an Inspection event. Not just any set of visitors, but a defining set that are hand-picked specifically to pull our weft and weave apart, check what DNA they … Continue reading
The ever-shifting foundations of Good Curriculum design and practice – using PISA/OECD data!
In December 2013, the OECD PISA triennial international survey hit the news stands and England was pilloried for being so far behind the leading nations in the world. In addition to their somewhat arcane abilities test in reading, maths and … Continue reading
“It is in the shelter of each other that the people live” An Irish proverb
During our working lives at Claires Court, we plan a very good deal, check across the piece that the opportunities arising are fairly shared, and reflect yet further after the event to ‘mop up’ where needs be. Serendipity however has … Continue reading
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Improving the Claires Court newsfeed for 2014 – paper v web!
Regular and established readers of our Bulletins and weekly Newsletters will know that we have been metronomic for at least 2 decades in the writing and publication of weekly bulletins to nurture our various parent and pupil groups in the … Continue reading
Facts v Skills and Knowledge v Wisdom – why Engineering still rocks!
Into my seventh decade of wandering the planet (sounds really old), and I continue to learn in this connected educational world in which I work. Commencing teaching under old style O levels and A levels in the 1970’s, I joined … Continue reading
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Weekly digital Newsletter 13 January 2014 – the ‘Shaking that bush’ edition http://goo.gl/fPwHDf
http://goo.gl/fPwHDf One of the greatest ever scenes in Movie History (OK a bit blokeish, I’ll admit) is this one in which our prisoner, Paul Newman (Cool hand Luke) manages to escape from the chain gang. I have used the Metaphor … Continue reading
A Principled view 