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Category Archives: Education
The OFSTED Visit
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
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I’m Ready, Let’s Hope They Are 🤨
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
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So, How did Zak do?
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
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Competition and Stats
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
Not the Oscars, but an Award is an Award
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
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Are Any of Us Where We Set Out to Be?
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
Parents
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
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Starters, Dandelions and Africa
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
Wind of Change
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
