I've just read Back To My Beginnings by Paddy Staplehurst. It's a memoir of growing up in St. Etheldreda's in…
A recent visit to Montreal found us at the MAC Musée d'Art Contemporain de Montréal Fortified with coffee and breakfast…
It's a late afternoon on a winter Saturday of my childhood. And that means the big Ferguson radio - the…
I've been looking for a particular poem for a while now. When someone used the hashtag #SherlockPoems in a Twitter…
When I was ten or eleven my primary school class was taken on a trip to Blenheim Palace. Big excitement…
The Manumit School was an experimental Christian socialist boarding school in Pawling, NY. and later Bristol, Pennsylvania. Manumit means freedom and…
Did you have a special place as a child? Perhaps somewhere secret and magical? A corner of a city park,…
Not a very effective way to get children to love school and enjoy math. But looks like it was an…
The Gallery of Modern Art is located inside the restored 15th century convent of Sant'Anna and has many works of…
Growing up in the UK in a certain era meant that you got to play with fireworks. I have no…
For those of you who concerned about our children's future - and I would think that includes all of us -…
By chance I discovered this wonderful document Growing Up in Ireland with its photographs of a lush green landscape and quick…
As a follow-up to my post The Perils of Education I was preparing a piece on play. My chief concern…
On my recent visit to England I came across a small trove of Child Education magazines (published by Evans Brothers…
I loved the addition of graphic artists at this year's NAIS Annual Conference. It was a marvel to watch them…