Yorkshire Times Review: What is a Bong Tree? by Michael Rosen

Book Review by Jonathan Humble‘What is a Bong Tree?’ by Michael Rosen (edited by John Richmond)Published by Michael Rosen (February 2022)ISBN 978-1-9999238-6-0 Sometimes, post arrives that lightens the day and puts a spring in your step. ‘What is a Bong Tree?’ a selection of articles and talks by Michael Rosen over several decades, had that…

March Update … the musings of an ex-deputy head teacher

As a teacher who graduated in the 80s, having studied at Charlotte Mason College in Ambleside where a child-centred pedagogy was developed and practised, I spent the early part of my career coping with the imposition of Kenneth Baker’s ‘National Curriculum’. At a meeting with student teachers in late 1987, a junior minister from Margaret…