Why Christmas comes early this year. We introduced “theme weeks” this year, to have some over-arching structure on classes that otherwise can become pretty splintered as the age difference in the group is so big. It’s nice to work on something together. It quickly transpired that this age group needs much more than five days …
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The HUM update: Theme weeks
As you know, the time after lunch at school is dedicated to the students’ own projects. This hasn’t worked out for everyone. And even those who do succeed in steering their ship to port, don’t do it quite as often as I know they could. So this year we are trying out a much tighter …
Some words about the school library
I have sifted through the entire library upstairs at school and culled quite a few books from the collection. This made me very philosophical about the state of school libraries in general. When I was a kid, books were restricted resources while time to read them was almost unlimited. I could either read books, or …
The HUM update
Welcome! The idea behind “The HUM update” is to let parents know what we’re doing in the humanistic subjects at school. We don’t assign homework at this school. However, sometimes it’s nice for parents to check what their kids are learning. From my experience as a dad, kids don’t volunteer this information themselves. Also, some …