by Des and Pam Des and Pam | Sep 29, 2014 | Uncategorized
B&C Educational’s Chinese Resource Boxes have been flying off the shelf we are very pleased to report. This has surprised us since China no longer appears in the new primary curriculum for key stages 1 & 2. It does however appear in the KS 3 curriculum....
by Des and Pam Des and Pam | Sep 19, 2014 | Uncategorized
We as the Global Dimension Partnership are now actively planning for the next Gambia study visit (19-26 November) and working with busy teachers is sometimes very difficult. Last week we were fully booked with 16 places, now two have had to drop out and we are looking...
by Des and Pam Des and Pam | Sep 24, 2013 | Uncategorized
INSET training at Northfield Road on Monday. We demonstrated how it was possible to link together the global dimensions (interdependence, sustainable development,values and perceptions, social justice, diversity, human rights, global citizenship and conflict...
by bandceducational | Jul 16, 2013 | Uncategorized
As primary teachers are feeling the effects of a long year, facing sports’days, parents’evening, report writing and beginning to think about the coming holidays, so the new curriculum is published in more or less its final form. There have been some...
by bandceducational | Jun 26, 2013 | Uncategorized
The new primary curriculum 2014 seems to be causing confusion in some primary schools and indifference in many others. The new programme is expected in September 2013 so that schools can spend 2013/14 preparing their curricula for the new programmes of study. However...
by bandceducational | Jun 18, 2013 | Uncategorized
Great news for KS 1 teachers from 2014 you can study a non-European country of your choice Key Stage1 (National Curriculum Draft 2013) • Understand geographical similarities and differences through studying the human and physical geography of a small area of the...
by bandceducational | May 29, 2013 | Uncategorized
Having had such a successful time in our April trip to The Gambia with a pleasingly diverse group of people who work in primary schools, namely three heads, two deputies, 9 class teachers, 1 learning assistant, a chair of governors, and PTA rep. The group gelled well...
by bandceducational | Mar 28, 2013 | Uncategorized
This week we seem to be preparing. We are preparing to exhibit at the Geographical Association Annual Conference in Derby from 4-6 April; we are stand 70 and hope to be talking to a lot of conference goers. It will feel strange to be at a conference and not delivering...
by bandceducational | Mar 19, 2013 | Uncategorized
B&C Educational have a coal-pot dilemma. We have some 400 Gambian coal-pots which we need to dispose of. These coal-pots are like mini-barbecues and are widely used in The Gambia for boiling tea and for cooking (see man in photo with his tea boiling at his...
