Here's our 🎶 parody version of Barry McGuire's 1965 "Eve of Destruction" that we've modernised to turn to current US adventurism. We're calling it: "Grief and Destruction" 🚀
youtu.be/QLBjeM53iBI
We shouldn't mix up the end point of learning with the process of getting to that end point. Children don't develop a wide vocabulary because they've been direct instructed in words. They learn language through conversation and experiences. Focusing everything towards memorisation is a mistake.
Long past time we had some radical change in education. Ofsted are hugely problematic and we need to be able to put children back at the centre rather than the constant pressure on children and young people. Pretty much every conversation I have with educators IRL is about this.
This is their one childhood. It should be full of play, exploration, wonder and community. And for some children, school is the only place they will (should*) be guaranteed to encounter those things.
For your next pub quiz: "Denmark is often said to be the country with the highest per-capita candle consumption in Europe. Danes burn around 5.8kg of candle wax per person per year – the equivalent of about six bags of sugar." But more seriously...
It deserves a second repost.
Only one week to go till #anewway comes out on 27th February! We wrapped the video today in a studio in Ashford #newmusic #hollowchapters #marshfamilysongs #preorder using link in bio! Thanks for sharing! x
I know it's not the main point but the BBC (and presumably also the DfE) completely ignore the existence (and vital role) of early years settings here in identifying SEND and getting EHCPs in place.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Our catalogue doesn’t stand alone 🌿 It links closely with our Outdoor Hub – packed with free ideas and guidance to support outdoor learning all year round.
muddyfaces.co.uk/outdoor-hub
#OutdoorHub #outdoorlearning #forestschool #natureplay
Ramps are new for 2026 🧱 in the catalogue and a brand new section with benefits of & guides to ramp play on the Outdoor Hub: muddyfaces.co.uk/outdoor-hub/...
Flexible, physical and brilliant for problem-solving, collaboration and play outdoors.
#RampPlay #LooseParts #outdoorlearning #forestschool
Here's a short excerpt from track 3 of #hollowchapters - a tribute in song to #alexeinavalny. It's called #sitfortheroad - available with #debutalbum on 27th March. Written on his murder in Feb 24, & played live everywhere we could in 25.
#navalny
#notallowedtogiveup ❤️
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Talking yesterday with people about how education in England has become too static for healthy development and about how some of the behaviour issues we see are at heart about children and young people needing to move more and be outdoors more.
Just looked through this catalogue-a great range of quality outdoor resources for every setting and school.,
Here’s a weeknight quick turnaround 🎶parody on the UK fallout linked to #EpsteinFiles #PeterMandelson's friendship with him, and the bigger implications ... we chose song #mrsrobinson from #thegraduate about vice/virtue!
youtu.be/h870VJsLk_c
Link to forthcoming album at end: orcd.co/hollowchapters
A stark, bare landscape of flat ground, ploughed field and stream under a grey sky is enlivened by detailed studies in the foreground of the plants and flowers of February
“February. Another cold, dead month, or so it seems. The elms are bare against the sky, the plough-ground is naked and wet, and still as brown as the sodden leaves.
Yet the world is waking up”.
Artists: Edith Hilder, Rowland Hilder (ShellGuide, 1955)
i wish schools were as excited about teaching forest school principles as they are about teaching AI.
We hope the good people of #SanFrancisco will forgive us for adapting a song about their city in 1967 to address the shocking and tragic events in #Minnesota in recent weeks. This is dedicated to Renée Good and Alex Pretti, and in solidarity. Our version is called "Minnesota" ❤️
youtu.be/BRHxXHZmVAM
Please spread this far and wide, as stories don't get much bigger than this. When the government blocks even the intelligence services from telling us we're heading for environmental catastrophe, you know we have a problem. A very big problem.
Thank you.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The brilliant Marsh family nail it again. Divine harmonies and brilliant parody. Such a talented family.
@marshfamilysongs.bsky.social sum up general opinion in the U.K. once again. And I can’t remember the U.K. being quite so united on any issue in the news for the past decade. He’s bungled his way to that, at least.
Huge happy 80th birthday this week to the legendary #DollyParton 🎉- we are marking it with a parody of her 2nd number 1 hit, written by the #BeeGees. Our 🎶 version's called "Donald's Sewage Stream" - since he brought his sick drivel to #Europe #Davos #NATO & our #armedforces:
youtu.be/F4nefIN4_LY
A line drawing of a street scene with children skipping, a bike going by and birds in the sky
An observation test for your inner 8-year-old.
You’ll be doing well to spot 12 deliberate mistakes.
From Treasure magazine, 1963
Official answers coming soon
(Even if you don’t reply, could you please ‘like’ or share this one?)
I think they mean Aretha, but what a belter anyway. Danielle's voice is on form for this one.
Very true.
It’s all about outdoors..
Flexible systems, environments, curriculum and minds are at the core. Well said Sue.
According to the DfE the answer is them funding yet more DfE training. This seems to be the only 'answer' they ever come up with rather than actually looking at the wider picture. 🤦♀️
If you're not going to look at changing the system then you're not going to solve the issues because a lot of them are caused by the pressures in the system itself.
All this talk of meeting needs and then @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social introduces yet another statutory test and keeps the same people advising on behaviour despite the rapid increase in exclusions of learners with SEND.
If needs are at the centre then we must start asking why the system struggles to adapt to those needs. If we truly want inclusive settings we have to find ways to be more flexible and to ask why the system isn't meeting the needs of so many.
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