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Word Up!

The Education Endowment Foundation Funds TCC’s Word and World Project I often hear teachers talk about wanting to ‘skill up’ their pupils, so that they might become better readers, and thus independent learners. At The Curriculum Centre, naturally, we are … Continue reading

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How to learn to remember

As a student of languages it was always clear that I needed to instinctively know how to say things or I wouldn’t really be able to converse in my chosen subject. I needed to get to the point where I … Continue reading

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The Limits of Knowledge

On Monday Daisy and I made it through the snow to address a group of Headteachers at the annual conference of The Prince’s Teaching Institute (PTI) in Crewe. We had been invited by Chris Pope, the co-director of the PTI, … Continue reading

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Why Ancient History is very 21st century

Yesterday Daisy and I spoke at Wellington’s conference on using independence to transform schools. One of the wonderful joys of freedom from the local authority and from the national curriculum is that we can improve and innovate on what we … Continue reading

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