(1) These new coins are going to make it easier for children to count. Another load of BS.

(2) The Government have a policy of building 300,000 new homes each year but that tw*t Starmer in his conference speech said if Labour get into power they will build 1.5 million new homes in the first 5 years. Isn't that 300,000 per year what the present government are aiming for? So what he is proposing is exactly the same!

(3) This government is "on the side" of Israel but they are supporting Palestine with a fair amount of money through their foreign aid plan. Is that what you call hedging your bets?

bullshit is the biggest disease ever known to man. those who are taken in by any of it need medical help fast.

1. The coins might do. I usually ask a teacher about educational matters.

2. Both major parties are crap? Well stop the presses and hold the phones! Got ourselves a scoop.

3. No such country as Palestine. Palestinians are a group of human beings who probably need aid. It's OK to provide it. Hamas is something different.

I always found even the dumbest kids even in the Juniors could count, simply because it’s money and money means buying things…like sweets.
Reading they weren’t so hot on….no incentive, but most of them get round to it eventually.
I remember in the infants those posters with a picture with a letter of the alphabet and an object like ‘A for apple’….I thought I’ll never learn this….and the same when years later I had to learn the phonetic alphabet…but you do.

Alpha
Bravo
Charlie
Delta
Echo
Foxtrot
Golf
Hotel
India
Juliet
Kilo
Lima
Mike
November
Oscar
Papa
Quebec
Romeo
Sierra
Tango
Uniform
Victor
Whisky
Xray
Zulu


UTP.

many could actually read comics and not just the pictures. allow kids to read what they want instead of making them attempt to read something of no interest would go a long way to help them. After leaving school it took me nearly 15 years to read anything but a football programme and car mag after years of shakespeare, jane austin and the bronte sisters being thrown my way. surely just learning to read is far better than learning to read to take an exam.

Where’s ‘Yankee’

too busy organising hallowean celebration we all have to suffer.

I hate Halloween. It’s my birthday and every bloody pub is full of plastic skeletons, tired kids running about and pissed parents so no chance of going out for a meal….. bloody Yanks, what’s up with ducking for apples.
Mind you then you have them knocking at the door, so we just lave Ratboy in the hallway where he goes howling apeshit, they don’t knock twice.

My interest in English at school waned massively when we had to do Shakespeare. Proper did my head in!
Ended up being put in what was classed as a lower group where we did books like To Kill a Mockingbird and Goldfinger. Got me interested again and ended up with an O level in it!

Even here in Thailand, I was walking through the shopping mall today and skeletons, pumpkins have started to appear. The only thing the yanks haven’t cottoned on to is Guy Fawkes Day.

Its interesting although Bonfire night is celebrated the actual truth behind it has almost been forgotten except by people of a certain age.
I am surprised it has not been suppressed by the government especially after the NI troubles from the 70s onwards.

All that cleverness and you still ended up supporting Darlo,lol.

Bugger that, they’d invent the first thermo nuclear banger.

Of course

Be interesting to speculate what would have happened if they’d succeeded.

its too near to hallowean, but they could move it back a month for pearl harbour day or harbor as we,ll have to call it. wasn,t there a push to celebrate thanksgiving day over here that fortunetly didn,t take off. but then their spellings have crept in like thru in drive through and others i have used a felt tip on when sending letters back i receive with yark spellings. they are certainly a marmite bunch or should i say vegex.