Year: 2008

A junior school teacher had a class of 26 pupils. She presented each child with the first half of a well known proverb and asked them to come up with the remainder. This is what they came up with. Not only are they funny, they...

“What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.”  – Mother Teresa.

A quick survey of what children are eating in their lunches was quite illuminating. Recently I noticed that some children were tired -even in the morning. They seemed to have reasonable bed times and I wondered if the food they were eating might be contributing...

The corner of the two roads outside our school was the drop off point for the district’s rubbish bags. Monday morning was the pick up day. So each Monday there appeared a great pile of bags outside the school. Sometimes the bags burst, sometimes stray...

This is a really neat excerpt from Margaret Attwood about the characteristics of boys that may help to put their behaviour into perspective. ‘Once I took boys for granted, I was used to them. But now I pay more attention, because boys are not the...

I dreamed I stood in a studio And watched two sculptors there, The clay they used was a young child’s mind And they fashioned it with care. One was a teacher; the tools being used Were books and music and art, One a parent with...

This is a blogg produced by the teacher and pupils of Room 2 at Mount Biggs School. Our school has three classes and is situated in the country near the town of Feilding in New Zealand. The purpose of our blog is to keep our...