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The various letters sent to the wider school community during the school year.

The gap between the UK and the USA just widened a little more…

Posted on 16/07/2011 by jameswilding

Oscar Wilde wrote: “We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.” (The Canterville Ghost – 1887). 124 years later, I suspect that we are also separated by our literacy.  In my recent reading around the … Continue reading →

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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.

Posted on 27/06/2011 by jameswilding

Samuel Beckett, the Irish poet and playwright penned these words in 1983 (Worstward Ho), and I can’t say they caught my attention then. Beckett as a writer seems to me someone you have to keep trying until you develop the … Continue reading →

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When Headlines aren’t News!

Posted on 27/05/2011 by jameswilding

There is no one way to improve schools, and since the time of Socrates and Plato, those who think about teaching and learning have known this. After every election when there is a change of party in power, the ‘new … Continue reading →

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4 years with a G-Wiz

Posted on 16/03/2011 by jameswilding

Now not everything that I write about relates to education, though you could be forgiven that from my recent blog entries. For a couple of weeks recently, I have been seen riding around in a petrol Hyundai 1.2, and rumours … Continue reading →

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A quick scamper up the Reichstag

Posted on 23/02/2011 by jameswilding

Not that long ago, the casual visitor to the German Parliament building in Berlin would be able to join a 100 metre queue and wait their turn to be hurled to the cupola on the top of the Reichstag, the … Continue reading →

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