ChangeThinking with SmithMartin

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World Reader and St Jordi’s Day in Barcelona

  We had just met with Zev from the World Reader organisation at a World Literacy Foundation conference in Oxford. Some concepts just make sense form the start and this was our feelings…

Daycare Trust Conference
November 2011

Childcare policy and the wider role of the community was the focus of the Daycare Trust annual conference in London on 22 November. A subject one would expect to have been well and…

World Bank Papers into Puppets – recycling project

Bunker Roy explains an amazing college and concept in Rajasthan, India. An extraordinary school teaches rural women and men — many of them illiterate — to become solar engineers, artisans, dentists and doctors…

Steve Jobs How to Live before you die

  Steve Jobs, CEO and co-founder of Apple and Pixar, sadly died this week. Steve Jobs co-founded Apple with school friend Steve Wozniak in 1976. Initially based out of his family garage in…

Youth Services

  The end of the summer holidays is fast approaching, have we seen the final acts of youth services as clubs and activities struggle to continue.   Youngsters in King’s Lynn park, Norfolk….

Forest Schools

This really captured our imagination at at a time when schools are about to go through further changes. Could be just the opportunity to see if a Forest School could be the way…

Outdoor Play Space

Playing outside is one of the most natural experiences for children of all ages. What more can be gained and enjoyed than climbing a fallen tree, creeping among bamboo canes, exploring in hidden…