Creative Minds Athlone

19/02/2026

19/02/2026

Cute elephant

19/02/2026

This!!!! From the rooftops 🔊

Unit/hub? Sift/separate? Equal/different?
Adaptations, to a point.
I guess it ticks the attendance box.
I suppose it has a beanbag and some fairy lights, although you’d rather be doing DT with your friends.
Inclusion or separation?
I tell you that you were born who you were meant to be.
I tell you to be proud of your creative, funny, bright and sen- sitive self.
I tell you to be yourself.
We could make schooling flexible and smaller and more indi- vidualised for everyone.
We could relax on the whole nylon blazer and traffic-warden school shoes.
We could explore an interest-based curriculum.
We could spend less time on diagnosis and more time on personalised responses.
We could have fewer children standing out for their differences. We could move to a more progressive way of learning, reflective of the working world.
Or we could just make a room with a beanbag.

Extract from A Different Kind of Parenting by Eliza Fricker published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers

18/02/2026

I don't do Lent

16/02/2026

https://c.org/nFqMMkv6Gw

Stop the cull of Special Needs Assistants - Protect Ireland’s Most Vulnerable Pupils

16/02/2026

I don't have one. Genuinely. For years, people said I needed one. I should be meaner, stricter, more 'teachery'. But children always fascinated me. I wanted to understand their behaviour - separate from their being. To connect and to find out what interested them.. or what did not. During lockdowns, I knew exactly what to do. How to reach my students from behind a screen. Creatively & connectedly. No one was logging on to hear a teacher voice

15/02/2026

Even on Feb 15th 😻

15/02/2026

Age 14

14/02/2026

Too many to tag 😬