RattleBag and Rhubarb
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…
Why School? Why PDS?
We are at the beginning of a period of focused strategic thinking at school and the Board of Trustees has…
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…
Middle School Learning Community
How we took four classrooms and a corridor and created a contemporary learning space for the middle school in the…
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…
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…
“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…
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…
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…
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,…