James MacDonald

Dec 10, 2024 | schoolmanagementplus.com | James MacDonald |James Macdonald |Briony Harris |Cheryl Giovannoni |Kevin Stannard

The Oracy Commission’s report, We Need to Talk, published in October, concluded that oracy should be recognised as the fourth “R” alongside reading, writing, and arithmetic. It highlighted a significant gap in spoken communication and interpersonal skills among school leavers and graduates, despite these skills being highly valued by employers.

Dec 9, 2024 | schoolmanagementplus.com | Tess St Clair-Ford |Irena Barker |James MacDonald |James Macdonald

Unless you have a carefully managed media diet, you have almost certainly heard dire warnings about the future of our planet and species. Of course, this is not an entirely new phenomenon and I remember growing up in Canada fearing the Soviet Union’s nuclear weapons and worrying that the doomsday predictions of the Sunday morning TV preachers could be right.

Nov 29, 2024 | swifthalf.com | James MacDonald |James Macdonald |Theo West |Pearl Francis |Tom Watts

COULD this declaration from the fun police be the latest attack on all that is pure and important to the honest law abiding beer loving ‘in moderation, most of the time’ British person? Apparently scientists reckon a measurement that is as much a British institution as queuing, going out on penalties or seething internally at people who don’t pick up dog’s poo needs to go. The suggestion has gone down about as well as a pint of milk left on the radiator.

Nov 19, 2024 | swifthalf.com | Theo West |James MacDonald |James Macdonald |Tom Watts |Pearl Francis

COLLECTOR Steve Goldman has spent seven years scouring bargain bins and dodgy corners of the internet to unearth around 500 of the most cringe-worthy, jaw-droppingly bad album covers you’ll ever see.

Nov 18, 2024 | pubs.acs.org | James MacDonald |James Macdonald |Christopher Richardson |Michael G. Gardiner |Kimia Rahmannia