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by Kelvin Smythe
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Monthly Archives: March 2016
Attack! 29 Holistic mathematics Part 3
Welcome to ATTACK! ATTACK! is a two-page occasional publication giving attention to the curriculum – the holistic curriculum. ATTACK! is for you, also to introduce to your colleagues. Each issue will be restricted to two pages. A cover graphic for a file or … Continue reading
Attack! 28 Holistic mathematics Part 2
Welcome to ATTACK! ATTACK! is a two-page occasional publication giving attention to the curriculum – the holistic curriculum. ATTACK! is for you, also to introduce to your colleagues. Each issue will be restricted to two pages. A cover graphic for a file or … Continue reading
Attack! 27 The battle for primary school reading – is the phoneme on the wall? Part 4
Welcome to ATTACK! ATTACK! is a two-page occasional publication giving attention to the curriculum – the holistic curriculum. ATTACK! is for you, also to introduce to your colleagues. Each issue will be restricted to two pages. A cover graphic for a file or … Continue reading
Posted in Attack, Curriculum
Tagged Academics, Curriculum, Education, Schooling, Teachers
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Attack! 26 The battle for primary school reading – is the phoneme on the wall? Part 3
Welcome to ATTACK! ATTACK! is a two-page occasional publication giving attention to the curriculum – the holistic curriculum. ATTACK! is for you, also to introduce to your colleagues. Each issue will be restricted to two pages. A cover graphic for a file or … Continue reading
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Tagged Academics, Curriculum, Education, Schooling, Teachers
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Part 2 Rangiora is about the school’s assets: in which I set out to nail Peter Hughes
This posting is based on the first of two letters I sent to Peter Hughes some days before the dismissal of Peggy Burrows. In other postings I have pinned the blame for this most terrible of school interventions on Hekia Parata; … Continue reading
Posted in Education Policy, Principals
Tagged BOT, Education policy, Ministry of Education, Politics, Trickery
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Attack! 25 The battle for primary school reading – is the phoneme on the wall? Part 2
Welcome to ATTACK! ATTACK! is a two-page occasional publication giving attention to the curriculum – the holistic curriculum. ATTACK! is for you, also to introduce to your colleagues. Each issue will be restricted to two pages. A cover graphic for a file or … Continue reading
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Tagged Academics, Curriculum, Education, Schooling, Teachers
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Attack! 24 The battle for primary school reading – is the phoneme on the wall? Part 1
Welcome to ATTACK! ATTACK! is a two-page occasional publication giving attention to the curriculum – the holistic curriculum. ATTACK! is for you, also to introduce to your colleagues. Each issue will be restricted to two pages. A cover graphic for a file or … Continue reading
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Tagged Academics, Curriculum, Education, Schooling, Teachers
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Attack! 23 The phonics debate: it should be game-set-and-match
Welcome to ATTACK! ATTACK! is a two-page occasional publication giving attention to the curriculum – the holistic curriculum. ATTACK! is for you, also to introduce to your colleagues. Each issue will be restricted to two pages. A cover graphic for a file or … Continue reading
Part 1 Rangiora is about the government dismissing a principal to get at the school’s assets
The children turn up of a Monday morning – there is the historical cheerful bustle of the school swinging into action, the greater quiet of the children at work, and the excitement as children surge to morning tea. Everything seems … Continue reading
Posted in Education Policy, Ministry of Education
Tagged Education, Education policy, Hekia, Ministry of Education, Trickery
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Attack! 22 Avoiding the hollows
Welcome to ATTACK! ATTACK! is a two-page occasional publication giving attention to the curriculum – the holistic curriculum. ATTACK! is for you, also to introduce to your colleagues. Each issue will be restricted to two pages. A cover graphic for a file or … Continue reading
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