Showing posts with label Michael Rosen. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Michael Rosen. Show all posts
Wednesday 17 August 2022

A fascinating Brent Exhibition on our links with colonialism, and our multi-racial and mixed heritage history - and you can visit without leaving home!

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  'By The Cut of Their Cloth' is a virtual exhibition that enables you to explore the story of Brent's multi-racial and mixed ...
Saturday 23 July 2022

Bear hunters spotted on Olympic Way and Chalkhill allotment

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  I could not resist posting these photographs of what is developing into an annual event from community group Daniel's Den . The pictur...
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Saturday 23 April 2016

Michael Rosen speaking at Parents Defending Education

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Parents launch campaign to defend education with Michael Rosen as patron

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Today's message was clear A new campaign, ''Parents Defending Education' was set up this afternoon at a well-attended ...
Monday 28 March 2016

Michael Rosen spatchcocks SPAG

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Government testing demands create a testing industry Michael Rosen, broadcaster and children's author, has offered the text be...
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Sunday 3 January 2016

Tory Education policy: Preparing today's pupils for the past

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Twitter and Facebook have been buzzing following the announcement of times table tests for 11 years to be introduced and integrated into th...
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Sunday 11 October 2015

Three passionate voices on the education crisis

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I tweeted the above open letter, first published in the TES, yesterday on both @WembleyMatters and @GreenEdPolicy and it has been retweet...
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Thursday 2 July 2015

United campaign against Baseline Assessment calls for support from parents and teachers

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England’s leading early years organisations have united with teaching unions in opposing the September 2015 introduction of Base...
Saturday 26 July 2014

Jon Snow and Michael Rosen speak out for the children of Gaza

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Jon Snow speaks about the Children of Gaza on returning home from reporting the onslaught Michael Rosen read his poem 'Don't...

Demonstrate for Gaza and its children today: Noon, Israeli Embassy, Kensington High Street

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Writer and broadcaster Michael Rosen will be one of the speakers at today's rally for Gaza in Parliament Square. This is a poem publ...
Sunday 27 April 2014

Will breathing be allowed in Birbalsingh's primary school?

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The editor cut my reference to"almost 'no breathing'  allowed"  in the letter published on April 10th  in the Kilburn...
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Tuesday 22 April 2014

Caroline Lucas backs parents fighting academisation

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From Caroline Lucas' blog (posted last week): Parents from Hove Park School, many of whom live in my constituency, have been in touc...
Friday 24 January 2014

Towards a National Campaign for Education

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This week's Education Question Time in Hammersmith which was organised by the Anti Academies Alliance and the group Towards a Natio...
Wednesday 22 January 2014

RECLAIM OUR SCHOOLS! Hammersmith.Tonight.

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Tonight's Education Question Time at St Paul's Church in Hammersmith could be the start of a significant fightback against neoliber...
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Sunday 19 January 2014

Greens should support national campaign for education

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I have long argued on this blog that because of the broad and fundamental attack on education by Michael Gove and the Coalition that we n...
Friday 14 June 2013

Jean Lambert MEP urges Gove to listen to teachers and children on primary curriculum

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  LONDON MEP Jean Lambert has called for Education Secretary Michael Gove to stop the ‘surveillance’ culture in primary schools – and i...
Monday 10 June 2013

Education: The battle of the Michaels about control, curriculum and creativity

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Michael Gove's ideas on education and schooling have been taken on by two other Michaels this weekend. Michael Rosen's You Tube int...
Friday 7 June 2013

Gladstone Park governors decide to pursue CfBT academisation

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Gladstone Park Primary School's Chair of Governors has written to parents today to inform them that the governing body has agreed to wo...
Tuesday 5 March 2013

The story behind Harris's academy aspirations

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George Monbiot has given national prominence to the forced academy issue LINK which has attracted many comments on the Guardian website. ...
Saturday 19 January 2013

Taking the Michael reaches new heights

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By some means not yet revealed,  Michael Rosen's satirical letter to Michael Gove has appeared on a semi-official website which special...