By Bob Jeffrey, Peter Woods
This e-book is ready a distinct college. it's a university that, regardless of the expanding strain positioned upon it by way of alterations within the curriculum and the employer of schooling, has controlled to effectively continue the artistic values that experience gained it overseas and governmental recognition.
Written for academics and headteachers who are looking to motivate creativity of their faculties and school rooms, the booklet describes:
- the school's tradition of holism
- its use and appreciation of its grounds and atmosphere for learning
- its leading edge methods to curriculum organisation
- its appropriation of nationwide projects corresponding to the literacy and numeracy hours
- its artistic instructing and studying throughout the eyes of observers, academics, youngsters and parents.
The luck of Coombes university indicates that it truly is attainable to mix externally imposed prescription with a suite of non-public ideals and values - creating a genuine distinction to the standard of training and studying. this can be a actually inspirational read.
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Some of these have 32 The creative school wooden covers, painted illustrations or beautiful photographs. They provide both a record, and a vivid means of reflection. Among them are ‘The Coombes Potato Harvest’, ‘Coombes School’s Stone Soup’, ‘Coombes School’s Recipe Book’, ‘Porky and Brian’ (about the school’s pigs), ‘Pumpkin Day’, ‘Making Pancakes’, ‘A Planter at Work: A Guide for Young Woodlanders’, ‘Megan the Sheep’, ‘Growing Food: The Seed to Seed Cycle’, ‘Cutting Down a Tree’, ‘A Bird’s Eye View of the Coombes’, and several stories.
They experiment with the soil in water to look at the sediment: they discover that there is air in the soil and they collect the small stones and particles. The clay underneath is compared and contrasted with the topsoil; we then use it for investigations into water tightness and malleability; we look at how the shape of a lump of clay can be changed by applying pressure to it; how its nature changes as we add water to it or dry it out. We make simple pots and a primitive sawdust kiln and alter the state of the clay, returning it to its rock state.
That is what buoys it up emotionally. We come at that through increasing the social ambience in the school and people’s awareness of each other. You create society in the microcosm in such a way that it isn’t competitive, it’s very much dwelling on the collaborative and the co-operative, and on our responsibility to each other. It’s the only defensible morality. The most important thing we could do is to provide an education for a high social IQ so that children can adapt and absorb, and know the really pertinent issues, the multicultural and multi-faith issues, if we’re to live in a world that doesn’t see itself in such separate bits.