If you want to watch the recording it is free access on this link www.youtube.com/live/eXwbX_r...

And we finished with Debbie Hayden's students' award winning historical garden that drew on their knowledge of the Holocaust to create a beautiful and inspiring place of reflection ...

Our teacher presenters Alice and Nini gave two very different examples of how to teach gardening and empire. The former shared a single lesson embedded in an Empire enquiry and the latter focused on three cases studies of NZ, India and E Africa ...

@corinnefowler.bsky.social, as always, was a font of knowledge on the connections between Empire and Gardening, lecturing us on the impact of indigenous plants and knowledge on the British countryside ...

Ah! Rats!! Have been sharing this all week and forgot to come!!

Hope it’s useful. Such a lot to get through in there and so much hiding in the detail I think.

My overriding impression was that for every time it suggested something I’d nod along to, the detail actually seemed to undo the positive or invert it!

Thanks. Hope it was vaguely coherent. Started life as a Bluesky thread but quickly became too big!

Have drafted this with regard some of the focus of the review, would definitely value your thoughts

www.andallthat.co.uk/subblog/educ...

I agree with all the sentiments here… I am less sure if the CAR delivers on this promise

Might drop you a line when I am done reading

Would be interested to chat about the geography reforms, Mark. Ann is way through digesting the CAR but it feels like a document riddled with contradictions… and I’ve really tried to find the positives too.