C.E. Jottings

Yet another assessment Yet another assessment another assessment another assessment

"vkkdmmg gkr glmkkk kkfmnkv gjgkf nf aksnc v kdvnvkbkmvv askkcn fnv bh cnb dnq 4 5 gkc vjv djkdkv cnfnsj fjjvn nvjjfm dnfh gnnbx dnncbv f nmvvmv kcjv nnvj" No. You've not misread. Your computer hasn't suddenly failed. I wanted to show you what the screen typically looks like when our Sarah uses her laptop. Sarah will sit and type keys randomly. Occasionally, she might ask how do something: how do you spell this or that, for instance. She likes... Read more →

... and so back to business-as-usual: a work-in-progress

Sorry folks for not following up our Free School interview with a quick posting. How did it go? Did we have a good day in London? I'll tell you in 6-8 weeks when DfE announces which groups have been successful! Returning to Sheffield on the train, we chewed over the whole experience and where we might have given a better response. We were all agreed the questions ranged widely over our proposal and that members of the interviewing panel seemed... Read more →

Little more than a weekend before Paces' Special Free School interview

Monday will see 5 of us in London at the Department for Education for our Free School proposal interview. We are looking forward to it, with some excitement and trepidation. Earlier this week, on Tuesday we got the interview team together to go through the advice supplied by the New Schools Network. Tomorrow, Friday, we are having a training session with Tom Legge of Place group, in the form of a mock interview. We aim to be as prepared as... Read more →

May I recommend ... edyourself.org

"Ed Yourself" is the website of Home Education consultant Fiona Nicholson (who, by the way, tweets as @edyourself). She deals with all policy matters of concern, obviously, to home educators (in England) - but that often has a much wider relevance. Just now I was alerted via twitter to Fiona's posting on the revisions to Ofsted's inspection of children's services - and to the questions that remain. There are other useful posts, too, on the same page, such as her... Read more →

Website make-over.

Paces' website has undergone a make-over. There's still quite a lot of content to input. Please do take a look. And if you can find a moment, please email me and let me know what you think of it. (My email address is just to the right below my picture). Read more →