The rain in Spain falls mainly on Ukraine – but there’s hope!
April 2, 2025The rain in Spain falls… mainly on Ukraine? The rain in Spain falls mainly on Ukraine as Russia and The United States compete for Ukrainian minerals. Meanwhile, the rest of Europe is wrestling with how to defend its principles over the inviolability of sovereign borders. How will Europe back up its rhetoric without American hardware […]
How do you assess quality for school trips?
January 20, 2025How do you assess quality for school trips? How do you assess quality when it comes to choosing a school trip? What is quality? At Château Beaumont we hold the Adventure Mark, the Learning Outside the Classroom Quality Badge and are members of the British Activity Providers Association. But what does this mean? What do […]
The end of December, but not the world?
December 28, 2024The end of December but not of the World? It’s the end of December, but not the world. That said, lots has changed! This will hopefully be an uplifting piece, but first you’ll have to bear with us. In the UK, a new Labour government is trying to find its feet (and the cash to […]
Does Learning a Language Matter Anymore?
November 9, 2024Does Learning a Language Matter Anymore? Foreign Language Teaching seems to be in the midst of a perfect storm in the UK. Dwindling uptake of languages at GCSE has combined with (and caused?) a dwindling supply of MFL teachers. Those that remain teach against the cloudy backdrop of a national curriculum with no MFL requirement […]
Fast n’ Faulty Knowledge versus Schools?
October 11, 2024Fast n’ Faulty Knowledge Versus Schools? Fast n’ Faulty Knowledge didn’t exist when I was at school, and not in the least because I just invented the term. If some of what we learnt was faulty then it wasn’t ever fast. My teachers were in competition with only three things: libraries (books), BBC2 and Things […]
School Trips are part of the solution to Inclusion challenges
September 10, 2024School Trips are part of the solution to inclusion challenges W.B Yeats noted that “Education is not the filling of a pot, but the lighting of a fire.” That said, my dad used to quip that there’s three great reasons to be a teacher: June, July and August – so it’s frustrating when the news […]