Releasing the Magic!

Friday, 9 December 2011

"Life is happening right now. So let's appreciate the beauty of today, because once its gone we can't get it back."

OFSTED GRADES ARE SIMPLISTIC AND DAMAGING! We need intelligent accountability driving a culture of excellence and improvement!

Children's University Annual Conference

I have just got back from the national Children's University's fourth annual conference at Shrigley Hall Hotel in Cheshire.

Leeds Schools Music Association's Christmas Festival Concert!

I finished the day yesterday at the Town Hall for the Leeds Schools Music Association's Christmas Festival Concert 2011.

"In times of change, learners will inherit the earth,

while the learned will find themselves beautifully equipped

to deal with a world that no longer exists"

Eric Hoffer

Sheffield College!

I visited the Hillsborough site of Sheffield College today to talk to the College Leadership Team.

Silverdale School!

I visited Silverdale School in Sheffield this morning to see Chas Ponsford Deputy Headteacher.

"When you reach for the stars,

you may not quite get them,

but you won't come up with a handful of mud."

Leo Burnett

Sunday, 4 December 2011

LINCOLN!

I visited Lincoln this weekend and what an amazing city it is!

BRILLIANT NEWS!

Brilliant news! The national Children's University won an award at the 'Directory of Social Change Awards 2011'. This brilliant initiative won the 'The Everyday Impact Award - New Enterprise'.

VISION MATTERS!

Vision sets the future direction for any organisation.

OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS!

We face an incredible opportunity to improve and develop provision in schools.

"Twenty years from now you'll be more disappointed by

the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do."
Mark Twain

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BRILLIANT QUOTES!

"There is no passion to be found playing small -in settling for a life that is less than you are capable of living."

Nelson Mandela

"It always seems impossible until it is done."

Nelson Mandela

"Life isn't measured by the number of breaths we take but the moments that take our breath away."

Anonymous

"Walk with the dreamers, the believers, the courageous, the cheerful, the planners, the doers, the successful people with their heads in the clouds and their feet on the ground. Let their spirit ignite a fire within you to leave this world better than when you found it.”

Wilfred Peterson

"Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves."

James Barrie

"Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve."

Martin Luther King

"Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile."

Albert Einstein

"No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt."

Max Beerbohm

"If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential. For the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible!"

Soren Kierkegaard

"If you are called to be a street sweeper, you should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry."

Martin Luther King

"The miracle, or the power, that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application, and perseverance under the prompting of a brave, determined spirit."

Mark Twain

"The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows, it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts."

Booker T Washington

"It's never too late to be who you might have been."

George Elliot

"Twenty years from now you'll be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do."

Mark Twain

"Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation."

Robert F. Kennedy

"There is nothing in life so difficult that it cannot be overcome. This faith can move mountains. It can change people. It can change the world."

Norman Vincent Peale