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Spark your students’ interest in science

December 10, 2015December 18, 2015Oxford Science Team

My daughter was indignant to be rewarded by her primary school for reading at home six times in a week. The pleasure from her books, she told me, was reward itself. This got me thinking. In school science, do we focus on the intrinsic rewards of the subject itself, or are extrinsic rewards – achieving […]

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The value of collaboration

November 12, 2014June 29, 2015Liz Black

In the last post I mentioned some of the work done by Network for Languages London. Let’s have a look this week at the work by Routes into Languages . Have a look at the different regions and what they are offering. There are many events across the country, motivating competitions that students can enter and awards they […]

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