Search results

To be honest, I think the ignorance of English rural life that I find irritating is very widespread and certainly not confined to you and bushy. Nor would it be right to argue that there is a uniform thing called "English rural life" that can be found everywhere. I'm probably arguing for...

That's not an accurate reflection of the thinking that lay behind the exchange programme that my kids' primary school developed back in the late eighties. And the underlying assumption that the "little white kiddies" from a rural primary school must have "middle class DNA" is quite plainly...

Because "other cultures" include aspects of UK culture that it is difficult to experience if you are a primary school pupil living in a small rural village. The head teacher of my kids' school who initiated the twinning arrangement with the south London school was brought up in Birmingham. She...

If bushy can't see that it's the needs of the village pupils to broaden their experiences (and not the needs of the "newcomers") that are at the heart of the matter, then he obviously has NO experience of life in rural England.

When my kids were little and attending a small rural Church of England primary school, the head teacher and her colleagues were very conscious of the fact that their pupils were missing out on the full range of cultural experiences that pupils in larger schools were benefiting from. They did...