With Christmas behind us and the New Year nudging its way in, our thoughts turn to resolutions. Next year will be the one when we give up a bad habit, take up a good one, learn something new. I don’t know about you but I’m not great at keeping resolutions; however that doesn’t stop me […]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-38157811 So another set have results have been published showing that our children are ‘lagging behind.’ This time it’s the Pisa (Programme for International Student Assessment) tests. These give us an international league table for maths, literacy and science and frankly our results are disappointing. Not devastating but definitely disappointing. ‘Why so?’ I hear you […]