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Blackland Farm Outdoor Activity Centre Kayaking Canoeing Bungee trampolining Rock climbing Archery Crate challenge Zip wire Abseiling Aeroball... ...and many more! Come and join us for fun-filled activity days. Why not have your birthday party here too? 01342 810493 blackland@girlguiding.org.uk www.blacklandfarm.org.uk Blackland Farm BlacklandFarmWT138.indd 1 10/07/2013 SpringGroveSchoolWT189.indd 17:31 1 19/10/2017 09:55 Success isn’t measured by 11+ Dover College is a leading co-educational day and boarding school for pupils ages 3 - 18. Attend our Open Morning on 18 November to find out more about: • Life in our Junior & Senior Schools • Plans for the future of Dover College • Our music, sports, creative arts • Scholarships and bursaries • Boarding options • Facilities and pastoral care To book your place at our Whole School Open Morning, email admissions@dovercollege.org.uk wealdentimes.co.uk 162 DoverCollegeWT189.indd 1 10/10/2017 14:28
Education Remember, remember Susan Elkin stresses the importance of teaching children the history behind many of our seasonal celebrations Credit: FreeImages.com/Picaland * ‘November’ published in Lupercal, 1960. Ted Hughes was Poet Laureate from 1984-2008. Ted Hughes, often a bit lugubrious, called November* “the month of the drowned dog” which seems a bit hard for the season of bonfires, traditions and looking forward to Christmas. I do think, though, that many schools miss a topical trick or two in November. Halloween on 31 October dominates the start of the month and many schools are full of American style carved pumpkins, cut out spiders and cheerful witchery. It’s become commercially huge in recent years. I think we should also teach children that Halloween means the eve of All Hallows’ Day which is another name for All Saints’ Day. It’s known as the Day of the Dead throughout continental Europe and taken very seriously with cemetery visits to remember deceased relations and so on. In Italy, France and some other countries All Saints’ Day is a public holiday. Yes it’s fine to have fun with blackened teeth and spooky Halloween hats but let’s also make children aware of the origins of it all. And what about Guy Fawkes? Yes there will be firework parties on 5 November but do we actually talk seriously to children about what probably remains the greatest foiled 00013MHSWT185x130_Layout terrorist plot in our history? 1 19/09/2017 The effect 14:03 of the Page 1 1605 Gunpowder Plot stretches right into the present day – and until the mid 19th century it was compulsory for communities to celebrate the thwarting of it. What an opportunity to get children to think about the tensions between protestant Britain (yes we’d sort of been united with Scotland for four years by 1605) and the Catholics who wanted something quite different. Parallels with some of what is happening today? There are also lessons about justice in the Gunpowder Plot story. Guy Fawkes, who has gone down in history as the villain was the original ‘fall guy’. He wasn’t the planner or leader. He was brutally tortured, though. And while we’re on the subject of topical things to do in November do we do enough to make children aware of what we’re actually remembering on 11 November? Every child should read War Horse at the very least. And some of the devastating poetry – shades of Hughes’s drowned dog, perhaps, except that the casualties in the mud, millions of them, were human. History – taught properly – is about a great deal more than covering set ‘topics’ and ticking boxes. Let’s encourage children to think and question. Not too big, Not too small, Just right. The perfect size school to unlock the potential in every child. We have an enviable record of Cranbrook entry success over the past 10 years, a 100% CE pass rate and each year our pupils win scholarships to many leading independent senior schools. MARLBOROUGH HOUSE SCHOOL Marlborough House School, Hawkhurst, Cranbrook, Kent TN18 4PY 01580 753555 163 wealdentimes.co.uk MarlboroughHouseWT188.indd 1 19/09/2017 14:17
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