Right proper bunch of Charlies!!
No wonder today’s children are uneducated; the “education factories” are being operated by untrained “teachers”, working with inferior materials, trying to produce a good product. That, people, will never happen. To top it off, Ofsted appears to be suffering from the same problem, itself, so it’s little wonder that the whole system is such a failure. Read the following paragraphs and see if you can spot why it’s all gone off the trolley.
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“In a Year 6 [11-year-olds] geography lesson on the rain forest, pupils tasted foods, used a computer program, painted their faces and engaged in drumming – all of which interested them – but their progress in knowledge, skills and understanding of geography was minimal.”
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“Lessons which are unsatisfactory may look superficially satisfactory,” the report said. “Teachers may delude themselves that clearly structured lessons lead to good teaching.
“However, this superficial sense of order can belie the quality of the teaching. Tasks are often ill-matched to pupils’ needs, or involve worksheets from which pupils learn very little.”
In place of such “passive” learning, Ofsted called for more role play, “hot seating”, “oral interaction”, creativity, imaginative writing, collaboration in small groups and use of computers.
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Perhaps Ofsted could do with a few lessons in the fundamentals of education. Apparently Melanie came to the same conclusion.
1 commentTHE ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES OF THE EU CONSTITUTION
Honorary President: The Rt Hon. the Baroness Thatcher, LG, OM, FRS
Co-Chairmen: Dr Brian Hindley & The Rt Hon. the Lord Lamont of Lerwick
Oliver Letwin, MP, Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer, speaking at a Bruges Group seminar on the economic consequences of the EU Constitution.
Shadow Chancellor Oliver Letwin warned that,
“The European Union Constitution contains clauses which could give the EU significant powers to control economic policy in member-states that are NOT within the eurozone and also contains a threat to the continuation of our rebate. These are further reasons for resisting adoption by Britain of the Constitution and for insisting on a referendum”
Oliver Letwin also said that the European Constitution represents the EU
signing itself a blank cheque regarding the payments made by member
states to the EU Budget.
“I would expect that the European Court of Justice would interpret Article 153 as allowing the European Union to decide the level of its own resources without limit.”
Letwin told the meeting of the Bruges Group yesterday.
“This is pregnant with possibilities for Britain our well known budget rebate is one of the issues related to the European Union’s ‘own resources.’ “
Read more Comments are off for this postROPMA round-up
Quite a selection of ROPMA hate in today’s selection. First off we have Kyrgyzstani authorities declaring pretty much every religion but Islam on a blacklist. ROPMA twits are demanding that they be mentioned in the new European Constitution. Presumably they want to take credit for their efforts to keep down the population of Europe and certain “enviromental re-arrangements” generations of jihadis loons have affected.
Over at Only Connect you can find an email to which you can send an email containing your disgust for the behaviour of the director of UNESCO funded library in Alexandria. This is the place with a display on Judiasm that contains the Torah right next to a copy of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. The copy of Mein Kampf was obviously out on loan at the time.
Read more Comments are off for this postPaul works with a complete cretin
Paul, who recently lost an uncle, has had a co-worker post a rather heartless comment on his blog. You see it was not just any post, but the one where he poured his heart out about his loss. He considered (briefly) hitting the culprit…and I bet no one blames him for that.
The stupidity and callousness of the person in question is breathtaking. Guess the bloody cow, who posted as anonymous, doesn’t know about IP tracking.
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From: ePolitix from Adam Smith
- The Halifax says that the Chancellor has reaped billions in stamp duty as a result of soaring house prices and stealth increases in the tax…
... just as well: the cost of running Whitehall is 700m pounds more than forecast this year — we now spend 18.6 billion on civil-servants…
... who take 50 percent more sick leave than private-sector workers: staff in the Employment Service (!) take nearly a fortnight off for ‘illness’...
... and mess things up: it turns out that the new 1.6m-pound GCHQ building is so overcrowded that staff have been forced to hot-desk…
... while the introduction of the tax credits system went ‘spectacularly wrong’. Not my words, but those of Revenue boss Sir Nicholas Montagu…
... and the government’s policy of selling off Foreign Office property to fund a new computer system is ‘misguided’ according to MPs.
– A YouGov poll found that 69 percent of voters think they are paying too much tax, and 56 percent think that planned spending should be cut…... meanwhile, an ICM poll found that 82 percent of voters think public services have not improved, despite huge tax increases…
... which members of Labour’s National Policy Forum want to raise further, arguing for higher top taxes to be included in the ‘Big Conversation’.
– Rail fares will rise by up to 4x the rate of inflation. Critics say it Won’t be used to fund new investment, but simply to cut demand…...while the extra cost of Notwork Rail using SRA-guaranteed loans may rise to 70m a year — all to keep it off the government’s books by maintaining the fiction that it is a ‘private’ company.
Comments are off for this postFestival of Light (…of sharia)
Oh, thank you, one and all, for our diversity-minded Mayor, Ken Livingstone.
So let me get this straight – on the one hand he is supporting ‘the light
of religious, national and cultural freedom’, yet on the other he is in
bed with ROPMA ‘neo-Syrian-Greeks’, attempting to destroy all nature of
religious freedom and tolerance, by imposing the ‘freedom and
enlightenment’ of sharia.
Over Where?
From the CBC:
EDMONTON - Thirty Canadian soldiers received Bronze Star medals from the United States for bravery and meritorious service in Afghanistan during a ceremony in front of 700 troops.
Glad to see the CBC’s finally got it right, on its website, at least. Last night on TV, it was claiming that the soldiers had earned “Bronze Cross” medals.
If I were the suspiciously-minded type, I’d think the CBC was attempting to conflate the Bronze Star and Iron Cross.
But never attribute malignity where simple ignorance will do.
The CBC — the entire Eastern elite, really — are so contemptuous of the military that they can’t be bothered to fact-check what they know in their hearts to be true:
Medals-schmedals; they’re all the same, right?
Comments are off for this postAnother failed PC policy!!
The mentally ill are ill-served by the “beneficent freedom” granted during the last 40 years. The evidence is clear, but no-one has the courage to do something about it. In the meantime, all others in the vicinity of those poor sad individuals turfed out to fend for themselves when they are totally incapable of doing so are placed in danger. This is not evidence of compassion and caring; it is a blatant disregard of reality.
The mentallly ill need refuge along with treatment, with locked confinement, if necessary, for the protection of the community. HMG has chattered about “doing something” about it since coming to power, but, to date, nothing more than a couple of ‘talking papers’ have come forth. Meanwhile, the statistics keep mounting of the mentally ill inflicting injury and death on others, and dying themselves from self-endangerment and failure to be treated. Not a comforting thought for those who have suffered losses at the hands of them, or are currently under threat of injury or death.
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