Why crumbling foundation?

I'm not a builder and as far as I'm aware the house is fine, so why crumbling foundations?

Well, too often of late I've found myself mired in the muds of procrastination and have totally failed to achieve a single personal goal in any given week. That's not to say I've achieved nothing, work and family-wise I'm doing okay but personally, not so well.

To this end I'm going to try and post something at least once a week, be it pictures of my latest miniatures project, a short story or even a film/book review. Let's see how long it lasts. ;-)

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Maths is not a GCSE

Welcome to another 'challenge your reality' rant. The Reality Teach to test mentally has become so intrinsically intertwined with adherence to National Curriculum that teachers of Mathematics have become institutionalised from the outset of their teaching careers. The Reasoning It is not their fault, my wife is included in this number and has been teaching secondary Mathematics for 25 years if we include her PGCE placements. However, for myself as a person diagnosed with ADHD, maths has always been a beautiful and wonderfully complex world of discovery, a view that was shared by Pythagoras who built a complete religion around it. In comparison, my own secondary schooling, centred around the new National Curriculum Standards (yes, I'm that old), crippled that passion in me for years until I finally got the opportunity to teach myself. Yes, mathematics is the verifiable aspect of science, the rules and the regulations, but it is also art. It is why STEM became STEAM in...

Who is school for?

Let's forget the automatic responses and actually consider the question logically. We have three invested interests involved in a child's education; the school, the parents and the child. For ease, the label of "parent" here encompasses all primary caregivers and when discussing "school" it is as an entity not it's component parts so appropriate phrases would be: it is school policy to, the decisions we are making are, the school feels, we feel... You as an individual be may be opposed to actions taken by the school but the expectation will always be to back the decisions of your management. With the idea that the School entity is the stakeholder not you, answer this quick question: Which of these Venn diagrams best illustrates the power dynamic within the school, parent and child relationship? Which did you choose? If it was either of the first two options you might as well stop reading now. To be clear, any relationship dynamic whe...

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