Alunh
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I can only assume that because I’ve opened a shop in Bank Street (and where is the picture of that momentous event), that Peacocks have followed suit……he says laughing out loud
Glyndwr University is a vital component of the fabric of Wrexham and the more that we can promote the University sector within the Borough the better. Study skills are a vital part of raising the bar for each student and it always amazes me how lacking in the requisite skills for study students can be, even those poised to do really well at ‘A’ level or University level.
Study skills are, of course, like car parts and what suits one student will certainly not suit another. What is clear is that there is an end objective of study and the better equipped that the individual is to achieve goals the better.
Like several other commentators, I was educated in a school system that paid no heed to the tools of the trade and I actually only picked up the craft of study as a bi-product of teaching.
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I don’t know what was said above but I didn’t sense a load of negativity. Have I missed something?
Agreed
It seems we have some lines to work with here and I only wish the authority was as pragmatic. Education has to be something that educates and educates across the board trying to bring each individual to their own individual potential (equally). This is not delivering the same curriculum within the same lessons but tailoring the Education delivered to the needs and abilities of each child.
Whilst this might suggest child centred tailored teaching, pace and tempo require Setting for group teaching scenarios
I’ve never thought of that angle. I wonder how the exports and imports stack up and whether we have a huge trade imbalance of students. It could be, of course, that the stats tell a different story to what my intuition suggests
But for me both systems are still ‘old school’ because in my opinion both systems fail because classes are way too big and pupils aren’t getting enough attention to learn (and pass) effectively.
I get this line Wayne but we have to build a system around the realities we face not some Utopian model that we are miles away from. Education budgets were not capable of delivering on your aspirations when times were good and Gordon Brown was doling out money like confetti.
@zinger 7123 wrote:
Really the message I get are that they are not just bad they are appalling. Metalhead is quite right & congratulations to him for making the right decision.
Just to echo this sentiment. I so respect mums and dads who have the brass balls to put their kids first and make the effort to place them in the best possible place. It would be interesting to use Freedom of Information to find out how many Borough based post 11 pupils are actually educated outside the Borough. I gather that Bishop Heber in Malpas does a roaring trade in Wrexham kids as does Castell Alun. Of course, many use the faith based schools and language based schools to achieve the same.
@thewayneinspain 7111 wrote:
Alunh
Think you have misinterpreted what i’m trying to say.
I mean the kids aren’t getting enough feedback on day to day terms. They are told they are doing something wrong, but not enough of them are getting enough time to be told how to how to do something correctly.
i think my ilk are not to blame, because the first thing they would be saying is you need more teachers and more classroom assistants not ‘pupil centred learning’ i.e. here’s your textbook go and study at home.
Ok…..let’s presume that the kids aren’t getting enough feedback on a day to day basis. If that were true, then you have a badly run school…….but that isn’t the point here……
Nor is the point about more teachers, more money, more resources, smaller class sizes and so on.
All that I am focussing on is Mixed ability Comprehensives vs other forms of Secondary school organisation. Whilst the British Conservative party partly support Grammars and selection, the official line is in favour of non selective Secondaries including, for example Academies. Academies in England were very much a New Labour idea and New Labour supported schools with a slant vs Bog Standard Comps as well as Setting vs Mixed ability. Most front-rank New labour politicians have condemned Mixed ability.
In Wales, sadly, we still live in a strange form of ‘socialist’ mess where we still support bog standard comps (with no difference one to the other) and still persist with Mixed ability.
Wrexham, therefore, remains an epicentre of archaic can’t work, doesn’t work Mixed ability backward thinking……and we have tolerated it. It’s only now that Clywedog and Rhosnesni are actually understanding why they have failed and it’s only now (under the pressure of abject failure) that local dinosaur politicians have woken up to how bad this is
Oh and when you see these reports about social mobility and how it’s never been worse….blame yourself. The facts have been clear on Mixed ability for years. The lessons are hopeless, the working class kid (with a brain) who needed tempo, teacher, etc sits devoid of the skill set to advance at pace. The middle class kid goes home and mummy and daddy compensate for school. By 18 bright working class kids that would have shone……don’t
