3. Food, Glorious Food. Monday morning was the big launch of our ‘Food4All’ initiative. The team at Homebaked  had worked all day Sunday to get everything ready (respect), and it was an emotional moment seeing the school minibuses setting off, laden with fresh, nourishing food. They came back at lunchtime with mostly positive stories of… Read More Lockdown 3.0. Food, Glorious Food.

2. The Joy of Communication The two core threads of the week were free school meals and autism. The first became national news by the middle of the week, the second is barely mentioned. Do people realise special schools are fully open? Both the ‘school-that-didn’t-really-close’, and the remote learning ‘school’ settle down on Monday. We… Read More Lockdown 3.0: The Joy of Communication

In, Out, Shake It All About. An astonishing week. Whilst it does not compare with the traumas endured by doctors and nurses in overrun hospitals, it is fair to say that those of us in education have lived several weeks in one. The whole of Sunday was spent preparing for a full opening on Monday.… Read More Lockdown 3.0: In, Out, Shake It All About

By way of suggesting some wishes, aspirations or otherwise for 2021, I thought I’d pick out some of the themes of the hundred or so blogs on this site. The majority were written before the pandemic. Reading back through them, some of these themes are even more urgent in my mind, given the danger of… Read More New Year, Old Themes.