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By  Presto Plans   We have all been there.  You bring your students down to the library to choose an independent novel and are met with a mix of reactions from unrestrained excitement to grumbles and groans.  While your avid readers will scour the stacks looking for their favorite author or genre, …

In our adult lives we are required to perform all sorts of duties. We are asked to fill in tax returns or benefit forms; take the driving theory test; compare energy tariffs, fill in mortgage and job applications; and vote on who runs the country. Yet it is believed we are too daft to know that whe…

There are many graveyards in this world that house the bones of humanity. These particular places are not, however, the cemeteries of the dead, but of the dying. Here the bones of the poets, the growers, the dreamers, the whistlers and the singers, are ground up and placed into moulds for reshaping…

If you are anything like me… you love the organization that comes with the start of a new school year.  New planners, new binders, shiny pens and pencils all start off the year in their rightful place.  However, it does not take long for the shininess to wear off and the disorganization to begin!  …

As the reassuringly smart newsreader delivers their glossy, lengthy TV news programme impeccably from their hefty newsroom, they sometimes seem oblivious to the breaking story vibrating on my iPhone as I lie on my settee eating a Time Out. I imagine their phone merrily buzzing in their inner suit p…

Isn’t it annoying, relaxing in your front room, when a rival’s TV ad interrupts your favourite programme?  Your mind wanders from the escapism of X Factor – straight back to dreary work matters. It quite puts you off your food.  Even worse when the ad is truly stunning. That’s how I used to feel in…

Hello fellow coffee drinkers! Thank you for joining us during our very first Espresso Shot session! Throughout this post, you will gain personal insight from each of our Secondary English Coffee Shop teachers.  For the month of September, we decided to discuss our favorite part about going back to …

I think that all there is that is left for me to say is ‘I’m sorry.’ You sit there by the window staring out at a world that is barren and colourless, and maybe you’re watching the soft fall of the snow on the road, or the raging of a monsoon breaking the iron heat of a parched land, or perhaps you…