Category Archives: Education

The OFSTED Visit

Posted on December 15, 2019 by charliecountryboy

Do you want to know a secret? Our instructions are: “Do not tell anyone about the OFSTED visit on Social Media.” Sorry this is England not North Korea. If you’re not English, notice I don’t say British, that’s because the … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogging, Carpentry, Education, Freedom, Humour, Life, Opinion, people | Tagged Blogging, Common Sense, Construction, Further Education, Humour, Life, Ofsted, Reality | 25 Comments

I’m Ready, Let’s Hope They Are 🤨

Posted on August 24, 2019 by charliecountryboy

I’m always a bit lapsed in August, like that bloody White Rabbit in Alice in Wonderland, there’s never enough time. Although next week I have an exciting post to write so watch this space haha, anyaways back to now, or … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogging, Carpentry, Education, Further Education, Humour, Life, Opinion | Tagged Blogging, Carpentry, Educators, Further Education, Humour, Innovation, Learning, Life, Opinion, People, Training | 7 Comments

So, How did Zak do?

Posted on June 22, 2018 by charliecountryboy

You know what? It really didn’t matter, yup I know; me = Mr Competitive. He enjoyed the experience and at 16 years old and he was the only student of mine that was willing to enter, that’s what really counts. … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogging, Carpentry, Education, Further Education, Life, Opinion | Tagged Carpentry, Carpentry students, education, Educators, Further Education, Life, Opinion, People, SkillBuild | 20 Comments

Competition and Stats

Posted on June 21, 2018 by charliecountryboy

I’m not sure if the two are related. I am definitely competitive and that is why I am at the Skill Build Competition in York College today. Although I’m not competing my Level 1 student Zak is. The thing is, … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogging, Carpentry, Education, Life, Opinion, people, York | Tagged CITB SkillBuild, education, Life, Opinion | 14 Comments

The School Bully and Why I didn’t Run

Posted on June 10, 2018 by charliecountryboy

This is a true story but the names have been changed if you recognise yourself then it’s probably you 🙂 Every school has a bully, ours was called Mr Trudd he was around forty five, we were twelve-years-old. He had … Continue reading →

Posted in 1970'S, Athletics, Education, Humour, Life, Opinion, people, Running | Tagged 1970'S, Bullying, Humour, Life, Opinion, P.E., Running | 33 Comments

Not the Oscars, but an Award is an Award

Posted on March 10, 2018 by charliecountryboy

So on Wednesday it was the College Awards and although Construction is often overlooked they decided that the Carpentry team was the best team in College. OK, I was surprised, but actually quite ‘chuffed’ as we say in Yorkshire. The … Continue reading →

Posted in Carpentry, Education, Further Education, Life, Opinion, people | Tagged Apprenticeships, Awards, Carpentry, Innovation, Life, students, Teaching | 20 Comments

Are Any of Us Where We Set Out to Be?

Posted on September 16, 2017 by charliecountryboy

Do you find it amusing that some of us end our working lives in a completely different career to the one we originally chose? I’m not sure if I ever really wanted to be a teacher. From the age of … Continue reading →

Posted in Education, Humour, Life, Opinion, people | Tagged Art, Blogging, Humour, Life, Lifestyle, Opinion | 39 Comments

Parents

Posted on August 9, 2017 by charliecountryboy

Have you noticed how many Parenting books, articles, columns, blogs there are today? Type Parenting Guides into Google and there are 11,100,000 results. Do parents have time to do any parenting after they have read all the articles on how … Continue reading →

Posted in Education, Further Education, Humour, Life, Lifestyle, Opinion, people | Tagged Children, Communities, Kids, Learning, Life, Lifestyle, Opinion, Parenting, Relationships, Self Help | 15 Comments

Starters, Dandelions and Africa

Posted on July 1, 2017 by charliecountryboy

So there I am in the classroom and no starter activity, if you are not familiar with this process, it can mean that you are a tidgy bit screwed. You need to get students attention immediately, before the phones come … Continue reading →

Posted in Carpentry, Education, Further Education, Humour, Life, nature, Opinion, people | Tagged Gardening, Humour, Learning, Life, nature, Opinion, students, Writing | 1 Comment

Wind of Change

Posted on May 29, 2017 by charliecountryboy

So here I am after a huge gap in posts, but I have read some of yours so not entirely remiss. There are reasons (really). New job, new house in a new area and all the facilitation that comes with … Continue reading →

Posted in Education, Further Education, Humour, Life, Opinion, people | Tagged Blogging, Humour, Life, Opinion | 3 Comments