Cameron Wyllie and Alison Colwell - Head Teacher Tales
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- Tickets
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£11 (£10 ticket charge plus 10% booking fee)
- Dates and times
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Saturday 21st May 2022
3:00PM
- Age
- Adult, Over 14s only. Under 16s must be accompanied by an adult.
- Venue
Two Head
Teachers from very different schools tell tales from the classroom and
staffroom.
Is There a Pigeon in the Room? is a deeply personal book about Cameron Wyllie’s remarkable four-decade career in teaching. It’s a tapestry of anecdotes and reflections on topics like drugs, parenting, refugees, tragic events, his own status as a gay man and tells us the story of Tes, an Eritrean boy who inspired hundreds of young people with his love of education.
Cameron taught over 8,000 students in his career. Having been
once described as ‘the place where Jean Brodie meets Kenneth Williams’ the book
also charts the surprising trajectory of a career which culminated in his
appointment as Principal of George Heriot’s, one of Edinburgh’s most
prestigious schools.
No Excuses charts an
extraordinary principal’s journey in diary form from the moment she took over
at a failing secondary school in a deprived area of the country, where less
than a quarter of children attained five or more A*–C GCSEs, and how she set
about the gruelling task of transforming its reputation using her
zero-tolerance, tough-love approach.
Armed with only a wicked sense of humour, fearless
energy and a powerful vision, Alison Colwell put in place a stringent set of
rules, including a strict uniform policy and a complete ban on mobile phones,
provoking resistance and hostility from some parents, the wider community and
on social media.
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