The decision to come at the argument from the perspective of a parent of a child was masterful; we must always keep our key stakeholders at the forefront of any thinking we do on our profession. If you desire a closer relationship with your spouse, you will appreciate the life illustrations, encouraging Bible verses, and the assurances of God's promises and power for your marriage. Yet by the mid-morning I was already regretting not requesting a Friday off to have attended both days of the education extravaganza that is the Wellington Festival of Education. They aren’t sitting in lessons bored, waiting for the next video clip or poster activity to engage them. He uses personification fused with the striking word ‘bleeding’ to display his sorrow but also his anger.

Every day, around the UK, teachers are getting assaulted; I’ve been threatened myself and plenty of my colleagues have been attacked. I advised myself that it is always easier to speak to people you don’t know, yet this did little to assuage my fears: whatever I told myself, first impressions count. Then there was my own career trajectory – I was about to become Head of English; my next career move would be Assistant Head, not Head of Department again. 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.He began by pointing out that the very fact that there is a debate over whether teaching is a profession undermines it as a profession. But my prayer is that this compilation of thoughts which I’ve picked up over the years will help you. It seeks to demystify personal financial management by breaking it down to five simple steps in a model we term as SMAAT finance that any individual can apply with ease. Then, using Joe Kirby’s excellent ideas on knowledge and memory, asked what we mean by knowledge – after all, if many of us took a GCSE paper now we would fail it, having completely forgotten what we once crammed in.

The verse above reminds us that God knows we’re not perfect; we’re messy, imperfect sinners who need the Lord’s grace daily. It’s a revolting thing to do, but the reaction is bizarre: the other boy immediately starts screaming (he is, after all, only 15) and running around like the proverbial headless chicken. You obviously can’t teach everything about Frankenstein, for example; you must be selective and deeply consider the most vital information you want students to retain for a very long time. I, the true murderer, felt the never-dying worm alive in my bosom, which allowed of no hope or consolation.Upon entering the hallowed gates of Wellington College, however, it was clear that this was schooling from a different planet: it was like entering some kind of National Trust facility; all manicured lawns and ancient turrets. Reuniting with an unexpectedly large crew of teachers from my last school, and remembering why I loved working with them so much. When the clock on the wall indicates that there are only ten minutes of the lesson left, everyone starts putting coats on and closing books. Just as Lot was so attached to Sodom, our habits, routines, and affections might be attached to a place, a situation, or even a person. That hard “thinking work”, which I seem to find increasingly hard to do as term progresses, is already done.

She was rudely awoken by adversity upon adversity in a span of six years, just when she thought one was over, then another hit yet again. This collection of essays provides some fascinating insights into the Michaela world and what can be achieved with leadership, determination, and a willingness to challenge the status quo. Combining his personal experiences with scriptural insights and principles for true happiness, he shows readers how every day can hold the same promise and opportunities for pure joy that they experience at five o'clock on Friday.This is an outstanding resource to helps us all stay away from sexual sin and live a life of purity.

It wasn’t until Katie Ashford shared her pupils’ essays with me that I had the profound realisation: their way worked. Bearing in mind each lesson is 50 minutes long, and that the first and the final 10 minutes are wasted, this is depressing in the extreme. It will guide you to make a real commitment to the highest levels of self-healing and selfless service. Explaining how he had taken a group of “at risk” boys and engaged them in peer mentoring in local primary schools – but cooking, reading and dancing with the primary school boys – Wilson heightened my awareness in the other part of schooling – we’re not only there to get results.I go round and take their books (asking them to pass them to the front is like asking for book-throwing mayhem). Once you experience the empowerment of starting your day with Him, you will never want to begin your day without Him. As we so often do, we are taking the easy option but selling them short: punctuality is so important in the workplace and our touchy-feely slackness will count against them in a few short years. The 7 chakras of the human personality are familiar to anyone working with healing or spiritual awareness.