Mr Read 'How Not To Teach and I 8 Skool'
Blog URL http://mrread.blogspot.com/
Located Liverpool, Merseyside United Kingdom
Primary School Teacher Blog - I'm a sceptic not a cynic, there is a difference. If you hate Ofsted, Literacy Consultants, spin doctors, teaching survival guides, McDonald's, testing, targets and SATs read on...
Latest Blog Posts
- on Apr 15, 2009 in I 8 Skool
‘I 8 Skool’ by ‘Mr Read’ £8.99 To order the book contact MrRead1@aol.comBook Outline1. IntroductionWhy teach? Why not teach?Autumn2. Gulls regurgitating fishHow the training is organised by ‘consultants’, we’re marked down as an “int...
- on Apr 6, 2009 in Testing Unions heads
SATs BoycottThe joint call for a boycott by the largest teachers’ union (National Union of Teachers) and the main headteachers organisation (National Association of Headteachers) represents the most credible threat to the Key Stage 2 tests.Almost e...
- on Mar 30, 2009 in Jess
JessThis is our cat Jess (no prizes for guessing how she got the name). It’s been tough the past two weeks having to wear a collar. Jess got neutered.She likes –· Lying in the warm coals on the gas fire and getting covered in soot· Eating spide...
- on Mar 27, 2009 in Literacy Children
Rote Learning?The Rose Review of Key Stage 2 was reported in ‘The Guardian’. The use of selected papers to leak information has been standard practice under New Labour. Apparently, the education organisations that specialise in certain subject ar...
- on Mar 26, 2009 in Testing
Rose Review, 'I see no testing'Freeing up the primary curriculum? The Rose Review prescribes more rote learning, chanting times tables, dates from history and phonics. The spin doctors were dusting their magic over the plans because to give it a good...
- on Mar 26, 2009 in Testing
The End of SATs?There’s a report on today’s newspapers that the National Union of Teachers (NUT) and the National Association of Headteachers (NAHT) are both calling for a boycott of Key Stage 2 SATs in 2010. Is the day of liberation coming?There...
- on Mar 23, 2009 in ICT BSF
BSF – the best thing since sliced bread?I’ve received a comment posted by C. Ellams from Liverpool about BSF -Could your attitude be anymore negative about one of the most exciting projects in this country? I am sick of people looking down, moani...
