School
My school.
Now it is all boarded up.
I've got so many memories - good and bad (not terrible) - looking at this.
It is so long ago but some of it is so fresh in my mind. Especially the aroma of the school dinners cooking and wafting across the playground. School lunches are a bit of a music hall joke but I don't ever remember leaving one uneaten - I loved 'em!
The rooms here were so light and sunny (when it was sunny, of course) because behind the blue shuttering were doors which were almost completely glass. They probably would not be allowed now for "Health and Safety" reasons. But I don't every remember anyone coming to grief (as my old Gran would say) because of them. I remember standing out here when I was really young, pouring water from one size of jug to another. Quite why we did that I've no idea, but it kind of came in useful years later when pouring out a can of beer. Especially knowing not to try and get a full Watney's Party Seven in a pint glass.
My other big recollection of school was never actually being ahead of the game. I was Ok but that was about it. Nothing better than OK.
Then I went to college. And I was Ok there too. Just Ok though, but old enough to like beer, girls and motorcycles - not necessarily in that order.
Then I started work. Ta da. I wasn't just Ok there - I was in my element. I often wondered why.
Thirty plus years after I left school I found out. Because someone gave me a Honey and Mumford Learning Styles Questionnaire to do. And I found out that I am utterly rubbish at learning in the traditional sense. Then it all made sense. Who I am, what I do and why I do it like I do.
Why the state schools don't bloody well do one of these right at the start of a kid's education I've no idea because frankly it might stop the education system to wasting billions making kids learn in a way that they just can't handle.
And my "learning style" reads like my autobiography. So it must be true. And it explains so much.
Never done one? - check out Businessballs:-
www.businessballs.com/kolblearningstyles.htm
Or this is a bit easier to read:-
www.le.ac.uk/users/rjm1/etutor/resources/learningtheories...
It doesn't mention pouring water out of jugs, though.
School
My school.
Now it is all boarded up.
I've got so many memories - good and bad (not terrible) - looking at this.
It is so long ago but some of it is so fresh in my mind. Especially the aroma of the school dinners cooking and wafting across the playground. School lunches are a bit of a music hall joke but I don't ever remember leaving one uneaten - I loved 'em!
The rooms here were so light and sunny (when it was sunny, of course) because behind the blue shuttering were doors which were almost completely glass. They probably would not be allowed now for "Health and Safety" reasons. But I don't every remember anyone coming to grief (as my old Gran would say) because of them. I remember standing out here when I was really young, pouring water from one size of jug to another. Quite why we did that I've no idea, but it kind of came in useful years later when pouring out a can of beer. Especially knowing not to try and get a full Watney's Party Seven in a pint glass.
My other big recollection of school was never actually being ahead of the game. I was Ok but that was about it. Nothing better than OK.
Then I went to college. And I was Ok there too. Just Ok though, but old enough to like beer, girls and motorcycles - not necessarily in that order.
Then I started work. Ta da. I wasn't just Ok there - I was in my element. I often wondered why.
Thirty plus years after I left school I found out. Because someone gave me a Honey and Mumford Learning Styles Questionnaire to do. And I found out that I am utterly rubbish at learning in the traditional sense. Then it all made sense. Who I am, what I do and why I do it like I do.
Why the state schools don't bloody well do one of these right at the start of a kid's education I've no idea because frankly it might stop the education system to wasting billions making kids learn in a way that they just can't handle.
And my "learning style" reads like my autobiography. So it must be true. And it explains so much.
Never done one? - check out Businessballs:-
www.businessballs.com/kolblearningstyles.htm
Or this is a bit easier to read:-
www.le.ac.uk/users/rjm1/etutor/resources/learningtheories...
It doesn't mention pouring water out of jugs, though.