Standard Education

A whistle blower

The second answer to that question, however, is ‘everyone’; everyone wants to be the referee; in fact, everyone considers they are the referee

By Tim Middleton Mar. 23, 2025

Or else

By Tim Middleton Mar. 9, 2025

Local company in Dubai real estate investment promotion

By Takemore Mazuruse Mar. 2, 2025

Do not just do it

Much more relevant (and therefore important) advice would be, firstly, to Do It Just, in other words for them to reflect carefully if they are doing it correctly, rightly, justly, fully.

By Tim Middleton Mar. 2, 2025

Compliments of the season

Compliments are gold dust. They can have a really positive impact on the recipients.

By Tim Middleton Feb. 9, 2025

Forget the T-shirt!

That smooth, wide, straight and clear road is dull and boring (and perhaps also sleep-inducing). It is what we see and experience on the way that really inspires and excites us.

By Tim Middleton Feb. 2, 2025

Fear pressure

“Bullying. Yes, I am going to teach you how to bully!” The class groaned audibly.

By Tim Middleton Jan. 19, 2025

Rip .Vip

There will be no rest while people think themselves better than others; such people are simply Vain In Passing.

By Tim Middleton Jan. 12, 2025

A load full of bull

‘The Three Bulls’ is not a fairy tale or a nursery rhyme; it is a sad reality which does not have a happy ending

By Tim Middleton Jan. 5, 2025

Pressure points

Tradition also plays a huge part in the school but we might note how someone once said, “Tradition is peer pressure from dead people”.

By Tim Middleton Dec. 29, 2024

Much ado about nothing

So, thank you, William Shakespeare (and his father and mother)! All will be well if we end this article well and show it is not much ado about nothing.

By Tim Middleton Dec. 8, 2024

Perfect endings

John Steinbeck’s East of Eden ends with “And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good” which maybe goes against the argument of this article but it no doubt

By Tim Middleton Dec. 1, 2024

Block head

Let us not be fussbudgets in our thinking and speaking and treating of children.

By Tim Middleton Nov. 17, 2024

Smart thinking

Smart phones are all the ‘thing’; everyone must have one, even, it would seem, young children

By Tim Middleton Nov. 10, 2024

A cross to bear

That is where the treasure will be found.

By Tim Middleton Nov. 3, 2024

When good is bad

At the heart of connectivity are two of the essential five Cs of twenty-first century learning - communication and collaboration.

By Tim Middleton Oct. 27, 2024

It is all rather fishy

When it comes to stories about fish, we all know that they tend to be dubious and exaggerated; there is always something fishy about such!

By Tim Middleton Oct. 20, 2024

Unstoppable

However, words of a song (or from a teacher’s mouth), will not make them get started, let alone not stop.

By Tim Middleton Oct. 6, 2024

What the f is missing

The lie is missing the F. Education must bring life. Ten out of ten people need to know that.

By Tim Middleton Sep. 29, 2024

Lost or found

Too many children have been written off by society, by schools, by systems as being a lost cause.

By Tim Middleton Sep. 8, 2024

Upgraded!

WhatsApp would not change anything but What’s Up conceivably could.

By Tim Middleton Sep. 1, 2024

What are you making?

Many children nowadays are quick to advise everyone they are bored — there is nothing to do.

By Tim Middleton Aug. 25, 2024

Why not

Watch a toddler with this new-found ability to totter on two legs, wandering around in a new place, seeing what is there, what happens if they touch things.

By Tim Middleton Aug. 18, 2024

You are right

Going back in time, in the Bible we read of the children of Israel who sent spies into Canaan to ascertain what lay ahead of them, in order to fulfil the promise that awaited them.

By Tim Middleton Aug. 11, 2024

The nitty-gritty of integrity

The Speech Night, or rather more importantly the Prize Giving Night, is for the school to celebrate the achievements of the school

By Tim Middleton Aug. 4, 2024

Driven to destruction

We have drivers pulling out onto the road when there is no gap, expecting (or rather demanding) that others must slow down to allow them in, instead of waiting for a gap to appear.

By Tim Middleton Jul. 28, 2024