At the chalkface
News
Everybody knows
Bespokeeducation:SirChrisHoyarrivesat
BarlowRomanCatholicHighSchoolonapenny-
“EvErybody knows the surely this walloping review will
farthingtohelpwithspecialistfinancelessons
ship is leaking. shift things? How much dafter do
“Everybody knows the they have to get?
captain lied,” goes that jolly A friend gazes on his
Leonard Cohen song. what ship? daughter’s report. on numbers
raw capitalism? new Labour? and letters and levels. she’s sunny,
The present cabinet? QPr’s witty and quick as pins and 12.
management? Take your pick. she’s “6b or 7c or 4a or is it 3c.”
or education. Everybody knows “Eh?” He gazes on tick boxes
it’s a ship of fools. Everybody and spreadsheets. “This is child
knows those league tables lie. abuse!” I know. I try to apologise.
big wig research keeps Teachers are in thrall to a
telling us. Cambridge QCA template.
professors recently “why?” Erm...
deemed it “philistine the rent, the sack. He
and utilitarian”. big moves to the pastoral
banker, ruth Lea, section.
thinks it’s “little more “solvents,” it says.
than churning sausages “Eh?” Is she good at this?
out of a sausage machine not getting blotto on the
and hitting targets”. And old Airfix? on what level is
now Professor Pring of she not sniffing glue?
oxford lays waste to it “Coping with puberty,” it
in his recent nuffield says. “Eh?” I know. no-one
14 to 19 review. The copes with this one. Always
biggest review for 50 a bit tricky. After 40 years I’m
years. It’s a demolition job. working towards a Level 2b.
Carnage. And the canker? “This tells me nothing!”
Pupils gear up for My Money Week
The poison at the heart of it His darling daughter is
all? Corporate values. Corporate just another number. one of the
jargon. “An orwellian language Professor’s “clients”. A little
of performance management and trainee adult. Training to have
by Chris Parr
Finance Education Group (pfeg), for pupils than in the current cli- the various financial challenges of
on behalf of the government. It mate. Many young people have independent living.”
control.” A levels in Anxiety. To be tense. aims to get young people in schools big dreams about their future, just Free teacher resources, includ-
It lies. It kills – like blake’s we have a prize day called The last thing you might expect to throughout England participating as I did when I was younger, and ing subject-specific lesson plans
invisible worm. It “impoverishes” “PErFECT TEnsE”. Honest. see when you arrive at school in the in financially-themed lessons and becoming savvy and responsible and the toolkit, are still available
intellectual integrity and trashes First prize? A bucket of valium. morning is a quadruple gold medal- activities, and runs until sunday with their finances is often the key to order or download from the My
“moral seriousness”. yo! Pring! It’s beyond satire, but you better winning olympic athlete cycling by (July 5). to making these dreams a reality.” Money week website.
The pupil becomes a “client”. It not laugh. Management can get on a penny-farthing. More than 3,000 secondary Michael o’neil, headteacher at wendy van den Hende, chief
doesn’t nourish. It throttles. “If well irked and put you on the old but this is exactly what staff teachers have signed up, receiving a barlow, said the pupils had been executive of pfeg, said: “The
you go back 20 years, it would be capabilities. and students at The barlow My Money toolkit with lesson plans “very engaged” with the personal resources and toolkits have been
seen as foolish.” I go back 30. It The ship is leaking. roman Catholic High school in and other resources, including an finance lessons. designed to offer something unique
seems worse. Malign even. but Everybody knows. Professors, Manchester experienced last week, interview with sir Chris, in which He added: “The lesson that sir and fun for teachers and pupils
younger teachers know little else. parents, teachers. so why can’t as beijing olympic hero sir Chris he talks abut how he funded his pas- Chris joined today was all about alike and we are looking forward
well, they should read orwell. we all just say no? Hoy showed up to help teach the sion for cycling while at school. household budgeting, and even rela- to making My Money week a great
“1984 should be made essential kids about money management. speaking after his visit to the tively straightforward tasks like this success, particularly thanks to the
reading for all trainee teachers.” • Ian Whitwham is a former It was all part of My Money school, sir Chris said: “Learning help to highlight the gaps between support of sir Chris.”
yo! Prof! but nothing changes! secondary school teacher. week, a national schools event run about money and how to manage actual and perceived cost of living visit: www.mymoneyonline.org
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