What a difference a couple of years make. Having now been to The Sunday Times Festival of Education for 4 years a number of things struck me as enormously positive this time around and I will list them in no…
St Silas Primary School: The journey continues…
“Slow Education is sweeping through schools in England” Sunday Times March 15th 2015
Are you a teacher or head of a school who feels testing has gone too far? Do you wonder about life after levels? We within the Slow Education movement believe we are at a critical moment. There is a need…
D6 at Matthew Moss High School
D6 at Matthew Moss from Fully Formed Films on Vimeo.
SLOW SCHOOLS MEAN DEEP LEARNING by Professor Maurice Holt
Despite a huge investment in tests, initiatives, and political aspirations, the English education system fails to inspire confidence. Those of us who advocate slow education believe it is the actual process of schooling that matters - not the invention of more ways of inspecting and…
‘And we are here as on a darkling plain’. By Mike Grenier.
‘And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night’ I have just about finished reading Sir Ken Robinson’s latest book on creativity in schools, partly because…
Slow Innovation and Research. By Dr Phil Wood.
I can’t remember a time when I wasn’t interested in playing around with ideas and using them as an excuse to experiment and build things. When I was a young kid this often revolved around using whatever technical Lego I…