I want to be an honorary member of the lost names club so that I can have adventures, explore lost places and people, shiver, laugh and finally come to know that laughter is a great weapon against bullies, daft adults and the dark!" Tony Turner, actor. "It always makes you want to read on. Everyone in my class finished it in less than two days." "It's funny as well as truthful. Our teacher wanted us to give her back our copies of the story, but we wanted to keep them." "The story asks the reader lots of questions but then sooner or later all those questions answer themselves." A few comments on the novel from a class of ten year olds: Ray Speakman is a writer, editor and teacher. This is his second story about Jimmy McConkey and his friends - and enemies. The first story, How Many Times Do I Have to Tell You? has been received enthusiastically by teachers, children and parents - so much so that this second story quickly became an inevitability. He lives in Solihull and Cornwall. Malc Speakman is an illustrator, art historian and teacher. He lives in Cheshire and London.
Redefining English for the More Able is a practical guide offering English teachers a range of strategies to stretch and challenge their students. Written by Ian Warwick, founder of London Gifted and Talented, and Ray Speakman, this book provides a fresh perspective on the purpose of English teaching and the benefits it can offer all students. Drawing on an array of ideas and examples from different genres of literature, the book discusses how ‘threshold concepts’ can be used to frame English teaching and push the boundaries of students’ learning. The chapters provide example lesson plans targeted at different age groups from Key Stages 2–5, and address different aspects of English, including short stories, poetry, film, drama and science fiction. Warwick and Speakman examine how the requirements for teaching more able students have received more recent focus under Ofsted, and offer specific examples of activities and reflective questions that can engage students more deeply in their appreciation of English. This well researched and accessible guide will be an invaluable tool for English teachers, teaching assistants and school leaders wishing to reflect on new ways of motivating and teaching the more able in order to develop the intellectual curiosity of all their students.
Henley Phipps. Bigger. Louder. Older. Sneerier. How could I make him stop? Go away? Leave me alone? What did I have to do? Jimmy McConkey has three close friends: Eric who likes weird poetry, Arthur who thinks hes a heavy goods vehicle, and Victor who is in fact a girl. He also has a terrible enemy who cannot be stopped: Henley Phipps. Things cannot go on as they are. Something has to change, but what about the consequences? And what about Jimmys mother? And the teacher who barks? How Many Times Do I Have to Tell You? is a novel about bullying, revenge, friendship, alienation, and getting everything wrong. Dreamers and worriers will live this story!
Redefining More Able Education is an essential, up to date and challenging introduction to the many factors involved in teaching more able students. Written by Ian Warwick, founder of London Gifted and Talented, and Ray Speakman, this book challenges our understanding of provision for the more able and explores ways in which we can ensure that students reach their full potential. Providing a thorough overview of topical research, the book offers a range of practical solutions for engaging students and encouraging them to become more independent in their learning. Warwick and Speakman explore key ideas including differentiation, resilience and motivation, and unpick issues including the history of more able education, the relationship between intelligence and achievement, working with marginalised groups and how students can overcome barriers when applying to top universities. A dedicated chapter summarises 21 easy-to-implement strategies that can make a real difference to teaching practice. This definitive guide to more able education will be essential reading for teachers, school leaders and any education professionals reflecting on different approaches to motivating and teaching the more able in order to better provide for all their students.
What are the seven key concepts that drove Da Vinci's inventive thinking and how can we still use them to improve our own creativity, 500 years after his death? In pursuit of the unified learning principles that sit at the heart of his work, Ian Warwick and Ray Speakman brilliantly explore the approaches that we need to take to make our own learning more original and thoughtful.
... Set in the Soviet Caucasus after the Second World War. To celebrate the settlement of a land dispute, the peasants stage a long parable play which explores, through the medium of a distant fairy tale, concepts of justice, social oppression and revolution"--Back cover.
This series offers a range of plays specially written or adapted for 11- to 14-year-olds for easy acting or reading aloud in class. Many have large casts. This book is a dramatization of Gene Kemp's novel, and has ideas for discussion and activities at the end of each episode.
This series of plays for the 11-16 age range offers contemporary drama and new editions of classic plays. The series has been developed to support classroom teaching and to meet the requirements of the National Curriculum Key Stages 3 and 4.
Henley Phipps. Bigger. Louder. Older. Sneerier. How could I make him stop? Go away? Leave me alone? What did I have to do? Jimmy McConkey has three close friends: Eric who likes weird poetry, Arthur who thinks hes a heavy goods vehicle, and Victor who is in fact a girl. He also has a terrible enemy who cannot be stopped: Henley Phipps. Things cannot go on as they are. Something has to change, but what about the consequences? And what about Jimmys mother? And the teacher who barks? How Many Times Do I Have to Tell You? is a novel about bullying, revenge, friendship, alienation, and getting everything wrong. Dreamers and worriers will live this story!
I want to be an honorary member of the lost names club so that I can have adventures, explore lost places and people, shiver, laugh and finally come to know that laughter is a great weapon against bullies, daft adults and the dark!" Tony Turner, actor. "It always makes you want to read on. Everyone in my class finished it in less than two days." "It's funny as well as truthful. Our teacher wanted us to give her back our copies of the story, but we wanted to keep them." "The story asks the reader lots of questions but then sooner or later all those questions answer themselves." A few comments on the novel from a class of ten year olds: Ray Speakman is a writer, editor and teacher. This is his second story about Jimmy McConkey and his friends - and enemies. The first story, How Many Times Do I Have to Tell You? has been received enthusiastically by teachers, children and parents - so much so that this second story quickly became an inevitability. He lives in Solihull and Cornwall. Malc Speakman is an illustrator, art historian and teacher. He lives in Cheshire and London.
Redefining More Able Education is an essential, up to date and challenging introduction to the many factors involved in teaching more able students. Written by Ian Warwick, founder of London Gifted and Talented, and Ray Speakman, this book challenges our understanding of provision for the more able and explores ways in which we can ensure that students reach their full potential. Providing a thorough overview of topical research, the book offers a range of practical solutions for engaging students and encouraging them to become more independent in their learning. Warwick and Speakman explore key ideas including differentiation, resilience and motivation, and unpick issues including the history of more able education, the relationship between intelligence and achievement, working with marginalised groups and how students can overcome barriers when applying to top universities. A dedicated chapter summarises 21 easy-to-implement strategies that can make a real difference to teaching practice. This definitive guide to more able education will be essential reading for teachers, school leaders and any education professionals reflecting on different approaches to motivating and teaching the more able in order to better provide for all their students.
Redefining English for the More Able is a practical guide offering English teachers a range of strategies to stretch and challenge their students. Written by Ian Warwick, founder of London Gifted and Talented, and Ray Speakman, this book provides a fresh perspective on the purpose of English teaching and the benefits it can offer all students. Drawing on an array of ideas and examples from different genres of literature, the book discusses how ‘threshold concepts’ can be used to frame English teaching and push the boundaries of students’ learning. The chapters provide example lesson plans targeted at different age groups from Key Stages 2–5, and address different aspects of English, including short stories, poetry, film, drama and science fiction. Warwick and Speakman examine how the requirements for teaching more able students have received more recent focus under Ofsted, and offer specific examples of activities and reflective questions that can engage students more deeply in their appreciation of English. This well researched and accessible guide will be an invaluable tool for English teachers, teaching assistants and school leaders wishing to reflect on new ways of motivating and teaching the more able in order to develop the intellectual curiosity of all their students.
What are the seven key concepts that drove Da Vinci's inventive thinking and how can we still use them to improve our own creativity, 500 years after his death? In pursuit of the unified learning principles that sit at the heart of his work, Ian Warwick and Ray Speakman brilliantly explore the approaches that we need to take to make our own learning more original and thoughtful.
This history of American martial arts films, from major features to direct-to-video releases, begins with an overview of the martial arts in America, then moves on to discuss early trend-setting movies; the influence of Chinese kung fu film imports; martial arts on television; the explosive growth of the genre in the 80s; and recent releases, trends, and the direction of English-language martial arts movies. There is a selected filmography of 300 movies."--BOOK JACKET.
Now and Forever is a thesis in two parts: a twelve-minute piece for orchestra and a text providing an analysis of the piece. The orchestra consists of two flutes (flute 2 doubling piccolo), two oboes, two clarinets in B-flat, two bassoons, four horns in F, two trumpets in C, two tenor trombones, one bass trombone, two percussion and strings. The work features the use of an original text as the underlying program, the use of golden section proportions as a principal organisational device, a rising semitone motive as the foundation for melodic, harmonic and registral development, and the intermittent appearance of micropolyphonic textures. In some passages, the harmonic series is the basis of pitch field development, notably in section VI, which consists of an orchestral evocation of the sounds of an aeolian harp.
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