A LESSON ON – LESS

“Senseless, faithless, heartless, ruthless” – these are not words found in a youngster’s report last term, though many may feel they would be entirely apt! No, these are words recorded almost two thousand years ago (in Paul’s letter to the Romans, 1:31) to describe...

POWER TO THE PUPILS

It is interesting that people say the favourite question in interviews is, “What is your greatest achievement?” More interestingly perhaps, the super-model Elle MacPherson is quoted as saying, “Having children is my greatest achievement. It was my saviour. It switched...

EDUCATION WITH AN ‘E’

There is an extraordinary novel called “Gadsby” written by Ernest Vincent Wright in 1939. What is extraordinary is that not one of the fifty thousand words written in the novel contains the letter ‘E’, which is all the more extraordinary in that the letter ‘E’ is...

PARENTING BY DEGREES

Imagine a job for which one needs no qualification, no training, no interview, no employment contract, no experience, no appraisal but, sad to say, no pay! Would you like such a job? Would you take on such a job? Maybe you would be too over-qualified for such a job!...

THE EYES HAVE IT

There is a saying, “The Eyes Have It”, which has great truth in it, even if we often neglect to consider it. It is said that the eyes are the window to the soul and we can learn so much about someone by looking into their eyes (difficult though it may be in some...