A Bosky summer sale The summer term is full of changes in school (and I might add this holds true in other places in the UK! Eyes on Downing Street!) The ‘transition’ term involves meet & greets, transition visits and taster sessions in new classes and new schools. There’s a mixture of excitement and nerves […]
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Creativity matters I can reassure you all straightaway – I’m not on a one-woman-quest to make the world a more creative place. There are plenty of us in Greater Manchester, finding our way and doing the stuff. The ‘joy business’, as Martina Murphy described it, is alive and kicking. There’s good news! If you, like
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Childhood, Screens and Learning Childhood, Screens and Learning: what are we getting right – and what needs rethinking? There is no question that digital media now sits firmly in our society alongside childhood. I remember one colleague who I worked with (20 years ago) who didn’t have a telly at home for his family (including
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Bosky Blog: Learning – what matrices can teach us about inclusive education I’ve been thinking lately about what matrices can teach us in learning. One of the things I’ve recently valued about working across education, publishing and heritage is that ideas rarely stay neatly within one discipline. Good ideas (and good people!) travel. They evolve,
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Recently, I have been really struck by this quote as we have been beavering away behind the scenes on ‘Where we live is creative’. The book is an accumulation of lots of ideas and inspiration feeding in experience from my working life in education, publishing and heritage – it is beautiful book that synthesises different
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At the end of the summer term, I gave a presentation about promoting emotional literacy in school settings. Within the last year, I met two colleagues, Katie Trowse from ‘Rise With Katie’ and Bianca Osborne from ‘Soulful Sessions Mindfulness’. Together as a team, we presented together about different aspects of friendship challenges for children. Katie
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I went on a Street Wisdom walk just before the summer break. It was facilitated by Claire who is a coach and trains and supervises other coaches. She’s based near me and I think she is a brilliant facilitator and coach. The process of the Street Wisdom session was to allow the place where you wander to spark your
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People help people Where we live is… creative I have been overwhelmed this week. Lots of people have been talking on my socials about a slow start to the year which is obviously totally fine – go with when you feel the momentum starting! I however booked in an activity workshop last weekend. We have
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How can I help my child with spelling? Children (and people) have different learning skills which contribute to them learning at school. There are lots of skills: speech skills language skills (which involves listening to, understanding and using vocabulary and sentence structures) attention skills – being able to focus on more than one thing at
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