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Questions from students – Oporto British School
Yesterday I was in Portugal. Well, no, I was at my desk in my garden office but my brain was in Portugal, doing a Q&A
How can I help students be braver about getting things wrong?
In a recent INSET session for The Glasgow Academy, I was explaining what prevents the learning brains in a secondary school classroom from being the
Readaxation lunches – a Perthect Idea!
Sorry but if I’m going to write about Perth High School and their regular “readaxation lunches” I have to call it perthect! After all, I
New book – No Worries!
I keep thinking I’ve said everything I want to say and there are no more books in me. After all, over 100 have come out
What do books do for you?
A couple of years ago a friend sent me a scan of a newspaper interview in which Lynda la Plante was talking about books that
Still my beating mind – Shakespeare Week competition
Shakespeare knew a thing or two. He even knew a thing or two about wellbeing, centuries before that word was used. He knew that sleep
When a worry stops you sleeping
I did a Live Online Q&A recently with Uppingham School students and realised at the end that I’d missed a question. It’s an important one
Use “Stimulus generalisation” to improve your revision, work-rate, focus
This evening I’m doing an online revision workshop for Year 11 students at Uppingham School. I am planning* to mention stimulus generalisation to them and
Answering questions from teenagers
Last week I did an online Q&A session with the sparky girls from Bedford Girls School. I did the same for them last year, too,
Why getting an answer wrong becomes an invisible problem
In a staff INSET session recently, there was a point on a slide that I didn’t have time to elaborate on. Afterwards, someone in the
Top Tips for Dealing With Uncertainty
The old cliché tells us that the only certainties in life are birth, death and taxes. That itself means there’s one more certainty: uncertainty. We
It’s more than OK to not feel OK
For Children’s Mental Health Week I have a book giveaway (see HERE) and this important message. Please say this to every young person you
