How will the school leaders of 2125 judge us? I have always been fascinated by what teachers a hundred years from now will think about our current societal norms. From the vantage point of modernity, we scoff at our ancestors and their foolishness. At days when driving home drunk… and pregnant… and smoking a fag, […]
22nd March 2020. The younger children skipped out to their parents as usual, blissfully unaware of the water rising up the school drive. First mentioned on distant shores. Then on Italian slopes. And now at our door. The older children were more frenetic, understanding the strangeness, but with no reference point with which to anchor […]
This week Blackhorse Primary School turned 20. Well… almost… the current ‘new’ building turned 20 – the school itself existed on another site since 1958. And to celebrate this milestone, we held a special day of celebration with children displaying their work focused on the school’s history, and with my good friend (and the Deputy […]
