Nevile Gwynne

What I got up to at the Wellington Festival of Education Part 2

2014-06-24T07:13:00+01:00June 24th, 2014|Featured|

Day Two of the Education Festival dawned rather too early; I was camped out in my van and could have done with another hour or so before the hordes descended. By the time I was decent, and had scoffed a quick breakfast in the almost oppressively convivial surroundings of the Master's Lodge, I was ready to rejoin the fray. My first stop was a debate rather pointedly entitled, What's Wrong With English Schools? or something equally foolish. The panel was ably chaired by veteran debater Clair Fox and consisted of everyone's favourite campaigning headteacher, Geoff Barton; grammar grandfather Nevile Gwynne; the [...]

Wellington Education Festival

2013-07-19T23:21:52+01:00June 22nd, 2013|training|

Thank you so much to all those who squeezed in to my Deliberately Difficult session at Wellington today. Photo by @headguruteacher I realise that lots of people were unable to see the screen due to the thronging hordes (really!) blocking their view, so here, as promised, are the slides I used : Ed fest desirable difficulties from David Didau As ever, I met some lovely people; some for the first time, some old acquaintances. But particular highlights for me were having lunch with childhood hero Johnny Ball (and getting the gossip on what really goes on at Strictly Come Dancing!) [...]

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