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St Mary’s Menston high school pupils take some Bambisanani to South Africa

I consider myself very lucky as through things I do, day to day including my work, I learn of some of the amazing things our oft derided youngsters do.  The latest is about 14 lower sixth formers from...

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A unique personal ethnographic museum in a high school – with a setting in...

Former headmaster Dumitru Bunea with a portrait of M Kogălneceanu, who founded the school in  1831 in a former ‘palace’ Two important things to do today, in the morning resolution of some medical...

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Lovely camping day to end our stay on the Continent

A beautiful day at ‘Camping Warnsborn’ near Arnhem close to the German/Dutch border. This is an excellent site and perfect for a first stop after taking the morning ferry from Harwich to Hook of...

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Fat cat Britain – Cruella in charge

Our real life Cruella de Vil Returning to UK after the longest period away since I returned, in 2004, from living in Romania there’s so much to write about. Should I settle on a theme or just ramble...

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First day at school –‘coincidences’

I was so surprised to find myself sitting under a picture showing my high school and a brief history With that title it may seem odd if I tell you I’m sitting in Wetherspoon, one of a large chain of...

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Women’s pay in UK and British illiteracy

I wasn’t able to post here for a couple of days but I must have a grump on a couple of themes, one from UK news on Friday, the other ‘news’ from the school in which Petronela is teaching. Those themes?...

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English teaching and founding a Leo Club in Romania almost 25 years ago; fond...

Allstars members, all from relatively disadvantaged backgrounds themselves, gained many things from their involvement in the internet projects; the confidence to present their work to an audience of...

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English teaching with ‘A 21st century fairy tale’ and a rambunctious class

The ‘structure of a fairy tale’ as drawn in my notebook and copied from that to blackbosrd. Looking for misplaced documents for our forthcoming drive to Romania (mostly proof I had paid a speeding fine...

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More gems from the ‘attic’ – English teaching in Romania

Finding 3 VHS tapes featuring aspects of my teaching of English in Romania a quarter of a century ago (post on 8th August), together with meeting two of my former pupils, were definitely the highlights...

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Rereading Huckleberry Finn & To Kill a Mockingbird; thank you Virginia!

I just downloaded The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and To Kill a Mockingbird, a little protest against Virginia’s banning of these two books. It is stupid and makes the task of people like me, who...

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