Reciting Poetry is One Thing, Loving it Another
There is no doubt that rhythm and rhyme are valuable tools in terms of developing vocabulary. Michael Gove has just announced that, from Year 1, five-year-old children will …
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War And Words: How Cyber Editing Could Mean Heathcliff Becomes Boris Johnson
It may have been the typhoid fever but it took Leo Tolstoy six years to write that book. Six years of Russian sweat and tears and about six years for many of us to read it. …
Emily Bronte’s Shocking News!
It’s enough to spur excitement into Heathcliffe’s restless spirit. Whether Emily Bronte’s secret hoard of poems – almost two hundred of them –would ever have seen the …
Balls, Body, Bodyart – Beckham Has a Defining Quality Beyond All That…
Days after Beckham’s ambassadorial arrival on British soil from Greece with the Olympic flame he announced that he felt his future was less likely to be in management but in …
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The Great Horse Manure crisis of 1894 caused our predecessors to get their knickers in a right twist. Writing in the Times one commentator estimated that “in 50 years every …
Living The Life
How To Talk To Children About Death Grief feels like fear – wrote C S Lewis and when my phone rang one morning three years ago, I knew instinctively that something was wrong. …