Blitzkrieg on Boys

Boys' underachievement has become one of the significant issues confronting schools today. This is a problem which can and should be addressed at a number of levels: theoretical, policy, and practical. This paper focuses on issues of policy and practice and describes how The Boswells School in Chelmsford has sought to address the particular problems it perceives as significant. Though The Boswells is a successful school, this has not prevented the objective of increasing boys' achievement being given a high priority. How the school has sought to address this through a wide range of initiatives is described and some evidence of early success is presented.     

The Methodology of the 'Views and Visions Project' of Land Use-UK: Practices,issues, decisions and experiences

The Land Use-UK Project was conducted with the support of teachers and students in schools throughout the UK. At the time they acted as surveyors of the landscape and, as well as mapping the land use, students recorded their perceptions of what they had seen together with their views for the future. Referred to now as the 'Views and Visions Project', these collective opinions from mostly whole class groups of students provide a database of 1287 responses. Along with the richness of discovery and meaning which the readings of these narratives of landscape experience provide, there have been many decisions to be made regarding the appropriate style and strategies needed for development of the data and interpretation and analysis of the research. This paper provides a reflection on the methodological decisions taken from the personal perspective of the authors as well as some critical comment on the limitations and possibilities of this essentially qualitative research approach.     

Trends in coverage of hygiene and disease prevention topics across national curriculum frameworks for primary science,physical education,and health

PROSPECTS - The response to the Covid-19 pandemic raises a question about the role of national curriculum frameworks in acquiring and applying knowledge about hygiene and prevention of disease. For...