Your school is about to face dramatic cuts. Cuts to teaching staff; cuts to resources; cuts to opportunities. Whoever you vote for put that aside for a moment. We were told early on by this government that the next generation should not pay for the failings of the one...
‘We take a ten-year span, ’says Colonel David Allfrey, head of army recruitment strategy. ‘It starts with a seven-year-old boy seeing a parachutist at an air show and thinking, ‘That looks great.’ From then on the army is trying to build interest by drip, drip, drip.’
Promoting the Military in...
Purpose The government believes that the pupil premium, which is additional to main school funding, is the best way to address the current underlying inequalities between children eligible for free school meals (FSM) and their peers by ensuring that funding to tackle disadvantage reaches the pupils who need it...
A good deal of excellent things have been written about GCSEgate and it will be very interesting to see how Ofqual, the exam boards and Michael Gove manage to wriggle out of it. Most teachers and headteachers with direct responsibility for students sitting the English papers are convinced that...
Weymouth College has been awarded the prestigious Buttle UK Quality Mark in recognition of its commitment to young people in and leaving care. To receive its Quality Mark the College had to demonstrate that it has a robust strategy in place to ensure that students from a care background...
Dear Parent:I know. You’re worried. Every day, your child comes home with a story about THAT kid. The one who is always hitting, shoving, pinching, scratching, maybe even biting other children. The one who always has to hold my hand in the hallway. The one who has a special...
Alright, alright! You can stop now! Stop throwing things! Sit down! Look, lest you accuse me of lacking a sense of humour, let me establish my credentials: I was the kid in high school who called his school newspaper SYPHILIS, just so’s he could shout ‘Have you got Syphilis?‘...
In 1988, I went to a fee-paying all-boys grammar school, then in 1991 left for a state comprehensive, where I finished the last term of third year, and the remaining two years of compulsory schooling, studying for GCSEs. The simple fact I've experienced both sides perhaps makes my contribution...
In the future, if you want a job, you must be as unlike a machine as possible: creative, critical and socially skilled. So why are children being taught to behave like machines?
Children learn best when teaching aligns with their natural exuberance, energy and curiosity. So why are they dragooned...
Barclays Money Skills kicked off last week at Weymouth College with over 1000 students taking part in activities throughout the College to gain money-saving skills with support from staff at regional Barclays’ banks. On Tuesday 19th March, eight groups of classes from across the College learnt about the benefits...
