‘Lose Your Shoes……’ Being a summer-born baby, I am biased about the season of warmth, long days and growth. Summer is, to me, nature’s way of ‘showing its beauty’ – […]
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World Population Day 11 July 2021 is World Population Day, an important date globally but perhaps one that is not as well-known as it should be, given the gravity of […]
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Together #withrefugees “Every minute 20 people leave everything behind to escape war, persecution or terror.” UN This fact is easy to read but what does it mean? I have often […]
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Journalling for happiness and sorrow – for life Until the age of 32 I had never heard the verb ‘to grieve’ – it had passed me by. But one day, […]
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The Role of Values & Visions in delivering the “Hidden Curriculum” Conversations with educators yield rich data on the importance of a values-based education that is deliberately infused in the […]
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Remember your mother! Rabbinic Tale A man was walking along a road when he saw a rabbi planting a tree.. The man asked the rabbi, “How many years will it […]
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Spring, a time of hope I’m writing from the north of England, very much in the northern hemisphere, and, where I live signs of spring are beginning to emerge after […]
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Hope springs eternal…. A reflection We are living through uncertain times. Living history. One day, when we are long gone, our successors will read about these days and wonder what […]
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#MotherLanguageDay International Mother Language Day is an annual event in UNESCO member states to promote linguistic and cultural diversity and multilingualism. It originated in Bangladesh, where it is known as […]
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Your Very Special Place Would you like to have an empty room that is there just for you; a room you can go to at any time; a room where […]
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Yes! Celebrating 2020 As we come to the end of a year we tend to look back and reflect on how the year has gone. 2020 has no doubt been […]
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The Masks We Wear “We all wear masks…metaphorically speaking” Jim Carrey — The Mask One of the enduring images from the current pandemic will be the wearing of masks. From […]
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