Releasing the Magic!

Thursday, 8 January 2015

REMEMBER CHALLENGES CHANGE US... PASS IT ON!

CUTLERS ENGINEERING AMBASSADORS

I had a great day today at Brindsworth Training in Rotherham with colleagues from Workwise who were working with Year 9 and 10 ambassadors from the five schools working together this year on the Cutlers 'Made in Sheffield' Project!

DREAM AND DREAM BIG... PASS IT ON!

This year we all need to remember that exploring, sharing, connecting and contributing is what learning is all about.

HAPPY NEW YEAR... PASS IT ON!

Thursday, 25 December 2014

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE... PASS IT ON!

Saturday, 20 December 2014

CHRISTMAS WISHES... PASS IT ON!

Friday, 19 December 2014

HAPPY CHRISTMAS... PASS IT ON!

"Life is too short to wake up in the morning with regrets. So love the people who treat you right, forget about the ones who don’t and believe that everything happens for a reason. If you get a chance, take it. If it changes your life, let it. Nobody said that it’d be easy, they just promised it would be worth it."

END OF TERM FOR 'MADE IN SHEFFIELD' ... PASS IT ON!

I was over in Sheffield again yesterday for a meeting with colleagues from the schools working on the engineering/advanced manufacturing strand of the Cutlers’ “Made in Sheffield’ Programme. These schools are Bradfield School, Firth Park Community College, Handsworth Grange School, Stocksbridge High School, Westfield School and Yewlands Technology College.

DISCOVER YOURSELF... PASS IT ON!

Passion and purpose are the keys to success

Tuesday, 16 December 2014

GREAT COLLEAGUES AND GOOD FRIENDS... PASS IT ON!

I was in Leeds again today and it was really great to have Christmas lunch at Thai Edge with some old friends and colleagues who, after four years, I still miss.

THE MASTER CUTLER VISITS FIRTH PARK ACADEMY... PASS IT ON!

I visited Firth Park Academy in Sheffield this morning with David Grey, the Master Cutler, Doug Liversidge, who chairs the Cutlers Education Committee and George Kilburn, the Cutlers Company Chief Executive.

MIRACLES CAN HAPPEN... HAPPY SUNDAY!

Saturday, 13 December 2014

REAL CHANGE TAKES TIME... PASS IT ON!

It's always interested me that the evidence, alongside the school improvement and development research, strongly suggests that short 'quick fix' inputs have limited impact.

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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