Blog posts in September 2011 
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How will she survive?
Tuesday 27 September 2011
Categories: Growing up, Higher Education, Letting go, Teenagers
Apparently research shows that many university Freshers lack basic life skills, having never before cooked, cleaned or shopped for food. The Independent 26/9/11 We are clearly meant to find this shocking but if we think back to our younger selves could we have said any different? Like nearly 70% of those questioned for Sainsbury’s research I certainly hadn’t paid a utility bill when I was 18. It’s true that, unlike one in five of them, I had cleaned a bath but I too hadn’t done my...
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Pushy parents - a headteacher's perspective
Friday 16 September 2011
I read with interest Jojo Moyes’ article Sharp elbows to the ready – school’s starting again in last week’s Telegraph. It was an amusing but pointed account of the pressures on parents to do what they can to ensure their children are successful at school and beyond. Stories about pushy parents are not uncommon, and as a headteacher with thirty years’ experience in education I certainly recognise the type, have the tee-shirt and bear the scars. Parents who are pushy and keen to...
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The demise of teen reading in the UK?
Thursday 8 September 2011
Categories: Education, Media Influence, Teenagers
‘Children in the UK are significantly less likely to read for pleasure than in nations such as Kazakhstan, Albania, Indonesia and Peru according to international research’ announced The Telegraph this week. I wondered whether the nations named in the headline felt mildly offended that they had been chosen to highlight the comparison – the implication being that they are nations we assume not to be particularly literate.
The article bemoans the fact that ‘four in 10 teenagers in...
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