The swallows are back. I heard and saw them at dusk yesterday. Now I really know we’re on the way to summer.
I’m rather in awe of these little birds that spend their winters with the elephants in Africa but choose to come all the way to Soup Towers to raise their family each summer. Their [...]
Archive for May, 2008
”We need to proactively and unashamedly teach and support parenting skills which will transform the lives of their children.“
Oh, I hope so Don… And not just support, but value and cherish and nurture and celebrate. Our society as a whole doesn’t do this, our government(s) doesn’t/don’t do this. I’d love to feel that our schools were [...]
Life, we decided around the Soup dinner table tonight, is rather like a marble-run right now.
Any 21st century parent is likely to recognise these contraptions with a shudder. Dozens of plastic tubes and gizmos and a handful of non-standard-sized marbles which will inevitably get lost, only to be tripped over when least expected. It takes [...]
”Staff are reminded that the only appropriate venue for a lesson is a Classroom.”
That was the gist of a memo sent around one sunny day by the headmaster of my school and shared by a disgruntled teacher with myself and the rest of a Senior Class.
You may guess that this headmaster was not a man of [...]
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