The St Leonard’s Green Scheme was formally launched at Semley fete on 8th June and the Big Green Picnic the next day, 9th June. At the fete, the wonderful postcards drawn by pupils (and one or two staff) from Semley Primary raised nearly £70. The ones that haven’t gone to new homes will be incorporated into a …
We have the Power!
There seems to have been a deluge of bad news recently when it comes to reports on the environment. So it was with a sigh of relief that I read this uplifting BBC headline: ‘The man who took on the coal industry to save a forest – and won’. Alok Shukla, has just won the …
Remember this?
Ever heard of ‘the Pyramid of Learning’? It’s a popular educational model for exploring how much we retain of anything we’re trying to learn. The usual estimates are that we retain 10% of what we read, 20% of what we hear, 30% of what we see, 50% of what we both see and hear, 70% …
The “Virtues of Unity”
Messums, the barn and art gallery in Tisbury, is always an impressive setting, but I was particularly moved by the work of Halima Cassell in a recent exhibition entitled ‘Of the Earth’. For ‘Virtues of Unity’ she has created 54, beautiful, bowl-like, sculptural vessels, each unique yet clearly related, with a shared rhythm to their …