Those kids will destroy every lesson this week, this term and this school year, for the simple reason that they enjoy doing so and there is nothing to stop them. Michaela is a trailblazer for a new kind of school: one that actively invites scrutiny, challenge and debate about its methods; that walks every word that it talks; that understands exactly what it wants, but isn’t afraid of installing updates whenever necessary; and that for once lives up to the hype surrounding it. I stood in the middle of those kids and felt I was watching a revolution in education – giving kids the facts, the knowledge, the grammar, the confidence to achieve anything in their lives. Keats could be saying that poetry is capable of inflicting an outburst of emotion, which is recollected in “tranquillity.

It is packed with evidence-informed examples of pedagogy which is inspiring remarkable learning in Michaela’s students.Apart from all the spelling mistakes and lack of punctuation – many a story is one, long two-page sentence – it simply doesn’t mean anything.

Antony then goes on to deliver an oration to the crowd by starting with the lines ‘friends, Romans, countrymen: lend me your ears. In particular, almost no-one managed to get the multiple correct options right; often they would get two of the three, for example. It was everything I had wanted: a big promotion, whole-school responsibility, and an opportunity to change the minds and practices of every teacher in a big academy. Remember, this was analysis of John Keats’ ‘This Living Hand,’ a poem they had never encountered before.

The canteen is a complete mess; the floor is a mushy carpet of bits of food and drink and the odd recognisable item like a squashed sausage roll. The phrase ‘Lions led by Donkeys’ was used of mulish generals in charge of British troops during World War I, but it applies equally to modern teaching. Did you give them time to green pen afterwards, looking at a few they had got wrong to really work on them?

This model does not offer a ‘get-rich-quick’ miracle, but for sure promises a life of financial independence after careful application of the same. And in our house you don’t have to look hard to find chocolate—next to the fridge there are chocolate eggs, in the freezer is chocolate ice cream, in the family room is chocolate cake, and upstairs in the bedroom there are chocolate bars. Winding along the road to Emmaus, Join two friends on the road as the joy of the first Easter dawns.This session was moderately interactive, but mostly Alex shared his new KS3 curriculum and the thinking behind it. We have a school uniform which the pupils are supposed to wear, but a visitor would be hard-pressed to say what it is.

Some cannot do the simplest sum even with the aid of a calculator: for example, you will ask the question ‘What is 9 x 7? While they talked about knowledge and instruction, I raved about student-led lessons and pupils’ personal interpretations. Keats keeps the poem following free verse and no rhyme scheme to perhaps inform readers that the possibilities and powers of the ambiguities, hidden meanings and unknown capabilities are not so easily understood and that the power is so strong that it breaks all form of rhythm and pattern.To begin, teachers had a multiple-choice quiz about memory, knowledge maps and multiple-choice questions. He is aware of everything that is going on in the classroom and exerts control constantly but effortlessly. This exceptionally complete and practical guide to personal and spiritual development deals with all areas of our lives and all aspects of ourselves: physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, and beyond.