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  • The Wire, UK schools and the shame of SATs

    After the Tories managed to claim that more than half of teenage girls in deprived areas got pregnant earlier this week (its actually 5.4 per cent, not 54 per cent) they were rightly mocked as being out of touch. I particularly liked the quote from Lib Dem chief of staff, Danny Alexander, who said: "The...
    Posted to Media Mum (Weblog) by Charlotte Goddard on 02-17-2010
  • Rapidly morphing into surly teenagers

    So......here we are again. Four weeks into the new term. I am now a full time SEN teacher; so no more travelling between sites for me to teach the GCSE curriculum to ungrateful year 10s! I was almost reclaimed by the upper school to teach additional literacy, but I stood my ground and continue to be...
    Posted to A Class of Her Own (Weblog) by Amy Moon on 09-29-2009
  • 'In five years time, we might not get along...'

    Like all well informed Londoners I get my daily news updates from the Metro. But I don't commute. I must have randomly subscribed to receive the online version and so I get a little email link in my inbox every morning. (It makes a good teaching tool by the way, because it is represented on screen...
    Posted to A Class of Her Own (Weblog) by Amy Moon on 07-01-2009
  • Reality Bites

    When I first sat down to read the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) Press Release: Inappropriate behaviour on Big Brother and Little Britain are leading to classrooms of Vicky Pollards , I have to admit I was a little sceptical. Having studied media and journalism as part of my degree, (and...
    Posted to A Class of Her Own (Weblog) by Amy Moon on 04-28-2009
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