UCET – the Universities’ Council for the Education of Teachers, has published an analysis of DfE support for the continuing professional development of teachers. The report was developed over a ten-month period building on extensive consultation with over 50 professionals directly involved with CPD provision for teachers in England. It seeks to highlight the strengths, weaknesses…
Robin Duckett, Sightlines Initiative. “We just realised how absolutely brilliant mud is!” The educators at Walkergate Early Years Centre in Newcastle had been venturing into a woodland preschool one recent spring and mud had been a big feature. The ‘mud-ludder’ children jump and squelch in it, getting stuck, feeling it, moulding it, churning it, finding…
Esther Sayers, Head of MA Arts & Learning Programme and Senior Lecturer in Education, Goldsmiths University. How we share and invest in our public spaces says a lot about the society in which we live. A community coming together to invest time in making common land better for everyone is a powerful narrative. This is…
Henricus Peters reviews Funny bums, freaky beaks and other incredible creature features by Alex Morss & Sean Taylor, illustrated by Sarah Edmunds. Have you ever looked at an animal and wondered if someone had played some practical joke with it – it looks so strange! Certainly, the first ever account of the duck-billed platypus suggested that someone…
Sue Shanks reviews Winter Sleep: a hibernation story by Sean Taylor & Alex Morss This book is comprised of two sections focussing on the topic of hibernation. The first section is a narrative story about a boy visiting his grandmother in winter, following an earlier visit he had made in the summer. He recollects that in summer he…
Share the World – Whether you have been involved in Our Shared World from the start or not, it’s inviting you to go to London on 12th December for a day of: Planning the strategy and activities over the next year Networking and connecting with other members Building appreciation for each other and a sense of community Re-invigorating the network around…
Here’s the latest update from Natural England by way of relevant evidence and reports, policy agenda developments, large scale delivery sector initiatives, resources and news items from the UK and abroad, with a focus on schools, education and learning. This supports the Strategic Research Network for People and Nature to develop better coherence and collaboration…
Sophie Roe, writing in The Inkcap Journal has a feature on the botanist Margaret Bradshaw who is 96 years old, “and something of a legend among botanists”. For the last seven decades, she has made an obsessive study of the rare flowers of Teesdale, and there is no one alive today who better understands the…
Here are a few of the COP-related viewpoints from this morning’s The Conversation: COP27 will be remembered as a failure – here’s what went wrong Mark Maslin, UCL; Priti Parikh, UCL; Richard Taylor, UCL; Simon Chin-Yee, UCL – The agreed loss and damage fund was a breakthrough in an otherwise inconclusive conference. COP27 flinched on phasing out…
Here are four contrasting newspaper reviews of the ending of COP27. The Times At least the Cop27 climate change conference in Egypt did not end in stalemate and recriminations. After frantic efforts by officials working beyond the deadline and important concessions by the richer countries, a text was agreed that sets up a fund to…