"There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves." Lyndon Johnson One is too small a number to secure much of significance. We all work in teams, contribute to teamwork and sometimes lead them. Now is the moment in the year when we look closely at the … Continue reading Teamwork 1/Building teams, building trust
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Brighton Subzero
Photo: Michael Regan I drove to Brighton: four degrees below. The motorways were salty, grinding, slow My windscreen wash was frozen. Would not come. The murky shroud of winter pushed me on. We met at Trevor’s Café. Half past three. Two full breakfasts and then two cups of tea. Like lovers, sliding eggs around our … Continue reading Brighton Subzero
Is that a newt in my curriculum?
photo by wildlifetrusts.org A thing of beauty is a joy forever/Its loveliness increases; it will never/Pass into nothingness. Keats – from Endymion Tipton: 1974. When I was young I had a love of natural history. Specifically newts. Near my house as a small boy I would idle away hours fishing in a wasteland pond with … Continue reading Is that a newt in my curriculum?
What T20 Finals Day taught me…about going back to school
1. Getting the right team? It's not always about the big names. Yesterday's winners Notts Outlaws could have picked their test player Stuart Broad, but they didn't. Instead they chose the right team for the right format, and the consistent players who had got them to the final. Actually on finals day, the biggest names … Continue reading What T20 Finals Day taught me…about going back to school
Our heroes matter
Summer. A time to take stock. To watch films and read stories about people and dream. To watch cricket... Childhood heroes This week I watched Michael Holding’s 1976 massacre of England during a rain-stopped-play moment in the recent England thrashing of South Africa in the 3rd Test. A re-run of Holding splintering England wickets. Silky, smooth … Continue reading Our heroes matter
The healing power of Restorative Justice
In Louise Tickle's powerful article in The Guardian this week here, she looks closely at the approach to using Restorative Justice in schools. The article reflects on the number of children who have been permanently excluded across Gloucestershire, and across the UK, but then considers the impact of the technique of Restorative Justice on shifting the behaviour culture in our schools. It is a … Continue reading The healing power of Restorative Justice
Guardian report – Restorative Justice
Follow link to Louise Tickle's powerful article here in The Guardian this week which looks closely at our approach to using Restorative Justice at GA:
Christmas at the Gloucester Royal
It’s the start of her shift and she hands me a tea, With half a sugar. In the day room, like a regular. A too-familiar welcome for a place we want to leave. While somewhere three floors below A registrar, half my age, is cutting up my perfectly-shaped boy. As the theatre curtain falls Electric-yellow … Continue reading Christmas at the Gloucester Royal
‘Lord Hereford’s Knob’ – The Black Mountains
Sharp-angled sunshine catches up with us On Hay Bluff, racing over bracken bent By showers stacking up against the dark And brooding layers of the Black Mountains. My boy and I we laugh along the ridge, Gaze across the peak of Lord Hereford’s Knob, And giggle at the future insults we will trade. We slide … Continue reading ‘Lord Hereford’s Knob’ – The Black Mountains
The Slingshot – talent or practise?
Jack Morris is a good friend of my son and plays cricket in Gloucester Academy sports hall on a Thursday night with the County squad. He says it is the bounciest surface he’s ever played on. He is only 16, but has strong arms and shoulders, a steady eye and his timing of the ball is sensational. … Continue reading The Slingshot – talent or practise?
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