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Assembly opt-out

Wednesday 14th Jan, 2009 by Amy Stock
Categories: 16+, Blog, Curricular, Assemblies, Links Rules on faith based assemblies in Wales are changing, and 6th form students are soon to be given the right to opt out of religious school assemblies. This rule was also relaxed in England back in 2007 for pupils over…

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best job in the world!

Tuesday 13th Jan, 2009 by Amy Stock
Categories: Other, Blog According to the BBC, spending 6 months working as a “caretaker” on Hamilton Island in Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is the best job in the world!. How does it sound to you? ‘The indigo skies…

Children’s Ministry

Tuesday 13th Jan, 2009 by Amy Stock
Categories: Primary, Blog If you work with primary age children it’s worth getting along to the Children’s Ministry Conference next weekend in Eastbourne (23rd-25th Jan). We enjoyed a great weekend in Eastbourne not so long ago for…

When to look for jobs?

Thursday 8th Jan, 2009 by will.allan
Categories: Secondary, Blog Would appreciate some advice about when the best time is to start looking for schools/youth work jobs?

iMatter

Tuesday 6th Jan, 2009 by Amy Stock
Categories: Secondary, 16+, Blog, Links This is a powerful little vid put together by 14 year old Alec from California. It’s for young people by young people. The mission is to educate youth about the science of global warming, and empower them to take…

Making movies that make change

Tuesday 6th Jan, 2009 by Chris Curtis
Categories: Secondary, Blog Today has been an interesting journey. That’s the great thing about the internet. You come across one thing and then, in a matter of moments it takes you somewhere else and then, a few minutes later you end somewhere…

SCHOOLS NEWS Jan/1

Monday 5th Jan, 2009 by Amy Stock
Categories: Primary, Secondary, 16+, SEN, Other, Blog, News Welcome back to the new term! Here’s a few news features to re-engage you with the world of education in 2009.

slogan for life

Friday 2nd Jan, 2009 by Amy Stock
Categories: Other, Blog Just catching up with a few news items I saw before Christmas, and this one caught my eye. It looked at the advertising slogans that we use as part of our everyday life. Apparently more than 45 per cent of Britons regularly…

One word can change everything.

Friday 2nd Jan, 2009 by Amy Stock
Categories: Secondary, Blog Need an assembly idea for the new year? How about taking the latest Jim Carrey movie ‘Yes Man’ and exploring the idea of getting the right balance between saying yes and no…

nice cup of tea and a biscuit

Friday 2nd Jan, 2009 by Amy Stock
Categories: Other, Blog One of the things I did over the Christmas holidays was to sit around and not do very much…excellent! While at one relative’s house, I was perusing the coffee table and found a fab little book called ‘Nice…