Mumfie in Brentford

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All schools in Richmond which are not yet academies are consulting about converting to academies. Here's my response: I can no longer ...

I don't like defining myself by a selection of tickboxes on a form and get annoyed when forms ask me to tick a religious category as I r...

In the seemingly permanent ongoing debate about education, with arguments about types of school, admissions, funding, curriculum, subjects...

My grandmother died this Wednesday morning, peacefully, after a recent fall and subsequent operation at the grand age of 100.5 years. On th...

My mother taught us all to read before we were three. It caused no end of problems at school because teachers couldn't cope with childre...

I didn't manage to finish the one book I wanted to over the Christmas holidays, but I did manage to finish a few. Brian Greene's b...