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I am writing this review in a variety of contexts. Primarily it is in the context of a secondary school as I am currently on my final teaching placement in a school where behaviour is extremely challenging with many pupils having severe behavioural disorders. However, I have also spend quite a few years running a childrens holiday club where over half of our children also demonstrated extreme negative behaviour. Therefore I have collated my key strategies and given examples based on my experience and suggested ways of dealing with situations. Positive expectations Going into a school that is ... more

A is for Aberfan. ----------------------------- A Heart rendering Disaster in Welsh History. I have decided to dedicate this review to the memories of the 144 people who lost there lives in the tragedy that hit the small mining community of Aberfan 40 years ago today. I feel it only right to write a review on this sad story so that we can all take the time to remember how lucky we all are and that we should always remember those who lost there lives through this avoidable disaster. It all happened 40 years ago on the 21st October 1966, just before the children were due to break up for there ... more

* Apologies in advance, but this ended up getting quite LONG and some people may be bored to tears. I take no enjoyment from making you cry, unless of course it's with laughter! However, if that's the case, it probably wasn't intentional * The latest in a long line of challenges, but this is a good one because of the engagement of and reliance upon other Ciao members within and for the challenge. The brain child of DempseyReview (Dempsey Devil, who I have now christened Double D … simply because I have a very silly sense of humour and it's rude-ish! Tehehe). The challenge is to ask some other ... more

This is the story of my life mainly in the 40's. Hope you find it interesting. -------------- I was born January 1940 when the Second World War was in its' infancy. My father missed this "wonderful" event, he was in the army getting ready to fight for us all. We lived in the second of four terraced houses, with my Grandmother. Swains Road led off of London Road, right on the South London/Surrey boarder. It was a long, narrow road with high walled back gardens on either side. We were right at the very end down a wide un-made-up alleyway called Swains Lane. There was only one gas light half-way ... more

"Added Value" is a marketing term used in the food industry - it is the way the supermarket giants manage to get YOU to part with more and more of your hard earned cash each week. You might of course be misled into believing the person getting the added value is you - you would be wrong! That added value all goes towards additional profits for these companies at your expense. I am not saying of course that "Added Value" is necessarily a bad thing, in some ways it has made our lives easier. But I do believe it is in our best interests to know how the whole thing works so that we can made ... more