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Beware of Shwaa! – (re)learning to read and write

Today I went to a phonics briefing meeting at my daughter’s school. I joked beforehand that we were going to a phonetics briefing session, liking the idea of…

Everyday Creativity for Blues Dancers

This is the second workshop I have run in the ‘Everyday Creativity for…’ series, this time for blues dancers in the London blues scene. A huge thank you…

Harrow: my original civil engineering inspiration?

This morning I was down at our local primary school arranging to do a talk about civil engineering for the Year 5 and 6s. The head teacher remarked…

The difference between what you plan and what actually happens

I spend a lot of time at Think Up working on the design of high-impact construction training events (for examples: Constructionarium, Big Rig, Build Camp and Nuclear Island…

The Return of Scientific Curiosity and Creativity/Ideas for an Outdoor Classroom

This post is about rediscovering a childhood fascination for how things work, and the thoughts it has provoked about creating learning environments that harness that fascination for the…

Notes on ‘The Art of Doing Nothing’ by Tom Hodgkinson

This post is for the Front Row gang (you know who you are). Since we were talking about the concept of Fun for Free at the last Front…

Looking back from the future: Useful Simple Trust’s first decade, as told in the year 2020

As part of the Useful Simple Trust Away Day in June 2011, eight Trustees and Directors were each asked to compose and present a five-minute piece giving an…