Tag Archives: school

Original Beauty

Posted on June 2, 2012 by

Oh I’m enjoying this time off. Back to studying on Monday but these two days (and looking forward to tomorrow) have been wonderful, and I’m looking forward to a long summer after my final A-Level exam. What have I done … Continue reading →

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Dictionary Game #2

Posted on June 2, 2012 by
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The Dictionary Game

Posted on May 26, 2012 by

Last night I looked back through all my old videos. I haven’t recorded any recently, but took ever so many in 2010 with friends in my final year of high school. One in particular I’ve thought about this morning. My … Continue reading →

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Conversion Moment

Posted on April 21, 2012 by

I’ve written before of at 15 arriving in a church and feeling like I’d come home. But I don’t think I’ve written before about how I started to really believe in God, to want to find people that knew there … Continue reading →

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And Let There Be Light

Posted on November 21, 2011 by

I want to write a bit of a follow up from my blog post yesterday… Mrs Penny was a great reader, and there was a part of us all that was scared of her – she was the headteacher! – … Continue reading →

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Chocolate Cake / Bread and Wine

Posted on November 20, 2011 by

I used to go mad when on Fridays our headteacher in primary school agreed to tell us the “Chocolate Cake” story. I didn’t know it was a poem when I was 5 years old, or when I was 10 years … Continue reading →

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Schools Kill Creativity

Posted on July 25, 2011 by

About this video: “Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity.” Here’s a snippet: Now our education system is predicated on the idea of academic ability. And … Continue reading →

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Primary School Pirate

Posted on May 9, 2011 by

When I was about 5 I started going cross-eyed and ended up with an eye-patch. “Primary School Pirate” for a little while, and then to “four-eyed bookworm”. I’m proud of both titles! I used to sit under oak trees in … Continue reading →

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A World Gone Mad in Need of Healing

Posted on March 29, 2011 by

This morning on my way to college, I overheard a conversation from the two girls sitting behind me. So I got online this evening and researched what I heard. I was mortified. Schools in California, Connecticut, Illinois, New York, Iowa, … Continue reading →

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Acoustic Love

Posted on March 18, 2011 by

Lovely lunch again. No Eddie this time, but accompanied by the sun and a can of coke! And again, that glorious music coming from the crowd on the lawn behind me. I didn’t want to disturb them, hidden away behind … Continue reading →

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