Introduction


Can each day be headlined by a word (or two) and represented by a single sentence?

Will they, in turn, weave together to form a tapestry of the year?

It may be more mundane than momentous, but it’s mine to share.

Monday, 12 May 2014

Building Bridges

As part of today’s teaching I used the dead hour before lunch (following an hour long session on sexual health, thankfully delivered by a professional in the subject) to get the learners to team up and build bridges out of just paper and sticky tape, of a specified minimum span and clearance, and capable of carrying a significant load (of Haribo sweets); the results were three surprisingly sturdy constructions, of variable architectural merit, not only able to support all the available sweets, but also in one case a fragile looking vase in the wrong room at the wrong time, which all went to provide a quite successful way of smuggling some functional skills (measuring and communication) into the day. 

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