The Senior SMARTIES have just completed a class on BIOMES and one of the things we did was that we looked at some of the amazing wildlife in different parts of the world. When we covered the Amazon rainforest, I found a really adorable creature… Y’all… I think this could be my new best friend!…
When I first joined SMARTIES, I felt quite overwhelmed. Being the more bookish sort and a humanities graduate, I adore literature and I can spend ages delving into theory… the very thought of engaging young minds and making science happen in the classroom though scared me to bits. But needs must – we all know…
It is hard to believe that it has been 5 years since our first SMARTIES class. Five. Back then, we mummas hadn’t a clue… not really. All we knew was that we wanted a quality education for our children. We also knew that we wanted them to have a lot of wonder, a lot of…
This is the transcript of David Attenborough’s speech at COP26. It has given me a renewed sense of mission for our SMARTIES Biomes unit! Your excellencies, delegates, ladies and gentlemen, as you spend the next two weeks, debating, negotiating, persuading and compromising, as you surely must, it’s easy to forget that ultimately the emergency climate…
What an amazing coincidence – we are commencing a unit on Biomes just as the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) is taking place in Glasgow. COP26 is addressing the problem of climate change – their plan is to try to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees. In order to achieve this,…
