Sunday 23 October 2016

Recommended viewing



The was a lovely, funny and, at times, rather moving documentary on BBC Two last night called The School That Got Teens Reading:


It's well worth watching. (And I'm not just saying that because it's my old school).

2 comments:

  1. A South African primary school (at least before the Education Department cleansed itself of 'whiteness') had a headmaster who encouraged reading by offering to do something silly at end of year if the pupils met reading targets. It almost always worked, and the kids had a great laugh at (say) the head getting doused in whitewash, or walking the playground on stilts.

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  2. So, what book did the nice ethnically diverse luvvie choose for the teenagers to read? I can't remember the name or author, but it concerned what life is like for a pair of co-joined twins. Fiction of course. Just the sort of thing to appeal to teenagers. Not.
    I wonder what would have happened if the cameras had not been there.

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