This essay by British musician Tony Thorpe discusses the importance of Lonnie Donegan, The Shadows and The Beatles in a personal, conversational way that only Tone can.
The new Citizenship Edition of this bestselling guide to the law for young people contains re worked sections on Money and Human Rights. As with previous editions, the Citizenship Edition encourages young people to reflect on their rights and responsibilities, and to become more aware citizens.
This text deals with a whole range of essential topics for young people - from the rights and responsibilities of renting a flat and driving a car, to knowing where you stand if sold faulty goods, or if you are questioned by the police. This edition is up-to-date with all relevant aspects of English and Welsh law covered.
This text, for anyone working with young people as a teacher or youth worker, aims to help explain the varied nature of charities and how they work to bring about social change. It is designed to fit with the curriculum of years 10-13 and includes photocopiable worksheets with answers.
This guide is completely up-to-date with English and Welsh law and encourages young people to reflect on their rights and responsibilities and to become more aware citizens. Each chapter is supported by FREE teacher's material with lesson plans, worksheets and quizzes available from www.ycponline.co.uk - It is unique - there is no other publication available like it for young people in England and Wales - The sixteenth edition is up-to-date with all relevant aspects of English and Welsh law covered. - Is supported by FREE teacher's material with lesson plans, worksheets and quizzes available - see www.ycponline.co.uk for details
Citizenship Studies has been written to support the OCR GCSE short course specification and the teaching of Key Stage 4 Citizenship. Combining a lively text with up-to-date case studies, relevant activities, and a stimulating selection of written and visual sources, the book helps students to understand important Citizenship issues.
Inside Britain: A Guide to the UK Constitution explains the rules and workings of government, Parliament and the courts, and sets out many of the rights and duties of citizens and government in Britain today.
Written by the Citizenship Foundation and produced in partnership with OCR, this second edition of the best-selling textbook has been fully revised to meet the content requirements of the new OCR full and short course GCSE in Citizenship Studies specification. - Helps students engage in and understand important Citizenship issues by combining a lively text with up-to-date case studies, relevant activities and a stimulating selection of written and visual sources - Covers both the short and full courses, giving teachers flexibility in course coverage - Supports the requirements of the 2009 OCR GCSE Citizenship Studies specification Features include: Accessible introductions to key topics - Relevant and thought-provoking case studies - Clear indication of full course content - giving teachers flexibility to teach both the short and full courses alongside each other - Mapping to the specification - giving teachers an at-a-glance view of how the content supports the OCR specification This new edition is supported by a teacher's resource book which gives detailed guidance on examination and controlled assessment techniques, as well as modelling the active citizenship requirements of the specification. It gives ideas on how schools can cover the new community cohesion agenda. It also supports teachers using the student book by giving answers to the activities.
Tony Robinson takes you on a headlong gallop through time, pointing out all the most important, funny, strange, amazing, entertaining, smelly bits about pets. It's history, but not as we know it! Find out everything you ever needed to know about pets through time in this brilliant action-packed, fact-filled book, including: * The fact that the Egyptians worshipped cats and even shaved off their eyebrows to mourn them when they died * The brilliant and extremely useful jobs that animals did and still do for us in times of war * The pets who help us in everyday life * Pet fashions and fashionable pets And lots of other facts about the amazing pets that we spend our lives with. What are you waiting for? Let's get going . . .
In Sir Tony Robinson's Weird World of Wonders Egyptians, Sir Tony Robinson takes you on a headlong gallop through time, pointing out all the most important, funny, strange, amazing, entertaining, smelly and disgusting bits about the Egyptians! It's history, but not as we know it! Find out everything you ever needed to know in this brilliant, action-packed, fact-filled book including: - Why the gods looked so strange - Why tomb raiding is a bad idea - Why they loved cats, and - How to make a mummy in eight easy steps For more funny history facts discover British.
In Sir Tony Robinson's Weird World of Wonders World War I Tony Robinson takes you on a headlong gallop through time, pointing out all the most important, funny, strange, amazing, entertaining, smelly and disgusting bits about World War I. It's history, but not as we know it! Find out everything you ever needed to know about World War I in this brilliant action-packed, fact-filled book, including: - How to build a trench - Why dogs were such good messengers - How plastic surgery was invented - Why you needed a gas mask What are you waiting for? Let's get going . . . For more World War history facts in this fun series, discover World War II.
This sequel to Breslin’s critically acclaimed Lessons from Lockdown explores how school leaders, teachers, parents and pupils have navigated their way through and from lockdown. This is the story of ‘doing’ schooling against the topsy-turvy backdrop of a pandemic that has caused us all to reflect not just on the purpose and substance of education but also the world that schools might, in the future, need to prepare children and young people for. Drawing on the voices of more than a hundred pupils, parents and professionals, it captures the range of experiences as teachers and students grappled with new ways of working, policy chaos and the complexity of schooling and teaching in such a landscape. Bubble Schools is a must-read for all concerned about the shape that our public education systems take as we begin to move forward from a system-shock that has revealed both the strengths and the weaknesses of education policy, system design and long-established classroom practice.
There has been growing concern and debate over the impact of social and economic change upon young people and the consequences of this for welfare practice. Within social policy, working with young people has become increasingly important. This book brings together a series of specially commissioned essays which direct attention to both the realities of youth work and the structuring of youth policy. In an area of welfare where the boundaries of responsibility and control are shaped by the competing interest of government, central and local, and a historically powerful voluntary sector, little has actually been written about those who specialise in this area or the structures and policy context in which they operate and from which policies emerge. Welfare and Youth Work Practice is designed to fill a number of long-standing gaps in the literature and thinking about youth work and youth policy.
The Benn Diaries, embracing the years 1940-1990, are already established as a uniquely authoritative, fascinating and readable record of political life. The selected highlights that form this single-volume edition include the most notable events, arguments and personal reflections throughout Benn's long and remarkable career as a leading politician. The narrative starts with Benn as a schoolboy and takes the reader through his youthful wartime experiences as a trainee pilot, his nervous excitement as a new MP during Clement Atlee's premiership and the tribulations of Labour in the 1950s, when the Conservatives were in firm control. It ends with the Tories again in power, but on the eve of Margaret Thatcher's fall, while Tony Benn is on a mission to Baghdad before the impending Gulf War. Over the span of fifty years, the public and private turmoil in British and world politics is recorded as Benn himself moves from wartime service to become the baby of the House, Cabinet Minister, and finally the Commons' most senior Labour Member.
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