The National Curriculum and beyond by Mike Cowdray
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The National Curriculum sits at the core of every primary school’s curriculum. However, it was only ever intended to describe the minimum that our children should learn.
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In practice, they are offered so much more - a rich mix of activities and experiences designed to help them develop academically, physically, personally, socially, morally and spiritually.
It might seem obvious, but it’s nevertheless true that children get the best deal when schools and parents (and, by implication, grandparents and other family members and friends as well) work together in close partnership.
This book sets out to strengthen these partnerships and enable meaningful and informed discussion between parents and professionals, by describing what children are actually learning through this broader curriculum and by offering practical suggestions as to how we can help our children to make the most of the opportunities offered in school.
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The Not Quite English Teacher by Eliza Jane Goés
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This is true story, the biography of an amazing teacher with a different life to most. Ella didn’t quite know when being a Not Quite English teacher had begun.
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Maybe, being a Scot, teaching Scots pupils, many of whom didn’t want to be posh, was the beginning. Or could it have been her arrival at a secondary school for the cream of Kenya’s girls, who desperately wanted to be posh? Perhaps it had been the day when Rick and she had bumped into a character walking along Piccadilly wearing a sandwich board advertising English lessons for foreigners. Or was this the moment?
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