Graham Silverthorne

Defining potential

I walked past a local school last week to be assaulted by its eye-catching entrance signage. Slashed across the colourful billboard was a clarion, diagonally offset, phrase, “Helping every learner achieve their potential”. “Be the best you can be”… “Aspiring to excellence”… You’ve seen these phrases, you can hardly miss them when you visit school […]

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This protean life

“Only the strong survive”, sang Jerry Butler on his 1968 album The Ice Man Cometh; “Only the strong survive”, sang Billy Paul in 1977; “Only the strong survive”, sang Rod Stewart in 2009;  “Only the strong survive”, Bruce Springstein entitled his 2022 album.  It seems, however, that this is a quote without a quotee, an

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Count yourself in

Every single night, I dream about school. Despite the fact that it’s been close to two years since schools were my everyday world, my tenure endures and flowers in a dream world of nightly adventures. Sometimes, these days, I need to wake up for a break.  For the most part these adventures are less harrowing

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