Choose Your Religious Education

First they take away our Christmas parties, then they say that Creationalism is actually as acceptable as the Big Bang theory in science classes, and now they want to give children a choice to ignore other religions, but only if they are “of sufficient maturity, intelligence and understanding”.
I am truly tired of people throwing legislation [...]

Blazing Blazers

Earlier this week twelve pupils at a school in Wales were excluded for a day after they started a fire in school in protest about the change in school uniform.
Now this was a symbolic burning of a school blazer, now a compulsory part of their uniform, in a school bus lane. The police [...]

My School’s Special

My school has been a specialist in business for a few years now, it even involved the changing of the school motto to ‘Skills for business, skills for life’. Earlier this week the school held an awards evening for Key Stage 4 pupils during which the headmaster gave a speech.
As headmaster’s speeches go it wasn’t [...]

Scientists, What Scientists?

Following some responses I received from my comment about the lack of ’science’ in GCSE science (end of this post), I thought I’d devote a post to it, and with my return to school coming tomorrow, now seemed like a good idea.
Firstly, I would like to comment on a program my school operates for kids [...]

Violent Children

I recently read an article regarding the GCSE English coursework from this year that said the kids were providing scary levels of violence in their fiction stories.
Now, I believe the technical term for the coursework was ‘creative writing’, so the idea is to let the students be creative. The main concern was from those that [...]