Library Matters » Six reasons why we think the Djanogly Learning Resource Centre is incredible
September 18, 2015
Source: Library Matters » Six reasons why we think the Djanogly Learning Resource Centre is incredible
Shanghai 4 has started
October 28, 2014
We are the fourth cohort of PGCE I students to gather in Shanghai to do a four day face to face course to kick off out PCGEI- a masters-level qualification. There are 61 of us and we all work in International Schools across Asia- from Shanghai itself to Taiwan, Beijing and Korea. Some of us …
Just have to look around to see educational values….
June 12, 2014
As we go to Shanghai schools, we only have to look around us to see how different the education here is from at home. The everyday things tell us about different priorities- culturally and educationally. We can’t help noticing the cultural paradox of a more collective society in which education is fiercely, individually competitive. We …
Shanghai schools- the little things you notice
June 10, 2014
Three new things from Shanghai schools-and they aren’t what you think! Eye exercises. Twice a day, in Shanghai schools, all the children do eye exercises. Suddenly, music comes out of a loudspeaker in the wall, a voice starts to count to the music and all the children hunch over and start massaging their eyes, cheeks …
From breakfast(s) to lunch(es)
June 3, 2014
Today was the longest day imaginable, with a lot of hours between breakfast in England and lunch in Shanghai (and quite a few meals). Our Shanghai colleagues were already on the coach from Raleigh park flats when it got to us at the Jubilee Campus just before 8am. Although the bus driver hit a few …
