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08 May 2012: Time Away After two days at a conference in Bristol I am very glad to be back, and as always I find myself wondering how Dean Close might have benefited from my absence. Actually, the first direct benefit is probably just that – my absence.  If things are running well it is always good to let other [...] Read More

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16 March 2012: Unsuspected Talents I have just been on a skateboard for the first time in about thirty years.  In case you are wondering, this was in pursuit of a demonstration of Newton’s Second Law rather than the surfacing of a mid-life crisis, but I am quite glad to h... Read More 26 January 2012: Team Work and Team Sport Having been in training since mid-September, last Sunday I finally took part in a big team event.  It didn’t involve chasing a ball around but it did require support, stamina, interaction, awareness and discipline. I’m talking about sing... Read More 13 January 2012: Quantum Leaps These are good times to be teaching Physics – which I am this year in a departure from the safer ground of the Maths Department.  It’s not often that a Particle Physics news storyis No.2 on the BBC news webpage but it has happened twice ... Read More 13 December 2011: Teaching to the Test To read the press last week you would think that there has been a wholesale racket in A level grades going on, with everyone in education conspiring together. A few simple facts might clarify the debate: The Government is responsible for... Read More 16 November 2011: Remembrance I have always found Remembrance Sunday a moving and humbling occasion.  As a scruffy schoolboy away at School for the first time I remember well the impression of solemnity that I felt as the whole School stood together by the war memori... Read More 14 November 2011: First Inspection Among many staff who experienced their first lesson inspection last week was one B K Wilson, who has been a member of the Classics Department at Dean Close since 1958. Brian has clearly led a charmed life as he has evaded every inspector... Read More

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