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My First and Last Poppy: Evermore and Nevermore

In Memory of Lance Corporal Frank Herbert Sims. Royal Army Medical Corps who died on 28 January 1919 Age 34 Son…

12 years ago

Why School? Why PDS?

We are at the beginning of a period of focused strategic thinking at school and the Board of Trustees has…

12 years ago

Ready or not, here they come

After more than a year of preparation we’re as ready as we’re going to be.  This Sunday a team of…

12 years ago

Middle School Learning Community

How we took four classrooms and a corridor and created a contemporary learning space for the middle school in the…

12 years ago

Beneath the Surface: The Hokey-Pokey and Jump Jim Joe

Most Wednesday mornings the lower school assembles in the Chapman Room and parents are welcome.  It’s usually a showcase for…

12 years ago

The Web of Respect

Cross posted from Josie's Blog It was the spider started it. A noiseless, patient, useful spider had spun a tremendous…

12 years ago

“What do you want to do?”

Today is back-to-school day for the faculty at PDS and today we are launching Project Innovate: Five Teams with a…

12 years ago

Child Education Magazine – a window on the past

On my recent visit to England I came across a small trove of Child Education magazines (published by Evans Brothers…

12 years ago

Change hits Welcome Back to School

This cartoon is making the rounds this morning:  Reminds me of those words often claimed to be either a Chinese…

12 years ago

Summer Bounty: Three days, three markets

Blackberries clustered against the sky, heavy and dark as thunder, which we plucked and gobbled, hour after hour, lips purple,…

12 years ago