The Alternative School

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The Alternative School -TAS offers a new and exciting alternative KS4 curriculum for young people - www.thealternativeschool.co.uk

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  • Catherine White
  • Nicola Owen
  • Bradley Allan
  • leanne hickey
  • Kirsty-Anne
  • damian lee plummer
  • stewart townsend

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stewart townsend added a blog post
Its official, The Alternative School Friday night football team are now second in the league with 7 points and overall the highest goal scorer's. The team turn out every Friday night come rain,snow and fog to play 6 a side for an hour against a c…
January 26
Catherine White added 9 photos to the album 'Indoor Rockclimbing'
January 22
A blog post by Catherine White was featured
A group of four young people from TAS decided they wanted to develop their rock climbing skills. They researched online and ventured out to the Manchester Climbing Wall. They worked along side one of the instructors from the centre and developed the…
January 22
Catherine White added a blog post
A group of four young people from TAS decided they wanted to develop their rock climbing skills. They researched online and ventured out to the Manchester Climbing Wall. They worked along side one of the instructors from the centre and developed the…
January 22
Bradley Allan, Catherine White and Nicola Owen joined The Alternative School
January 7
stewart townsend added 3 blog posts
December 9, 2009
stewart townsend added 10 photos to the album 'General TAS Pictures'
December 9, 2009
3 blog posts by stewart townsend were featured
October 9, 2009
 

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Catherine White

Indoor Rock Climbing




A group of four young people from TAS decided they wanted to develop their rock climbing skills. They researched online and ventured out to the Manchester Climbing Wall. They worked along side one of the instructors from the centre and developed their rock climbing… Continue

Posted by Catherine White on January 22, 2010 at 1:48pm

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SHEAF Project

SHEAF allotment project, Yr 11 young people spent the morning having a look around and coming up with ideas for the allotment such as, vegetable patch, growing fruit trees, compost areas, tree house and swing, grafitti areas, wood carvings, sculptures, wind chimes, cooking area, chickens, chill out areas, and lots lots more. Ideas have been documented on a huge spidergram ready to present to the SHEAF board. TAS young people are hoping to be able to implement some of these ideas, starting Januar… Continue

Posted by stewart townsend on September 28, 2009 at 9:00am

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Ewan McIntosh Digital Commissioner for Channel 4 Television's Innovation Fund talks about TAS



"Why should I learn Algebra...? I have no intention of ever going there." Billy Connolly had a point.

Schooling, despite the concentration on curriculum and assessment reform in recent years, largely still hasn't tackled the main issue: meaningless (to young people) pedagogy. It's not the fault of teachers, of course, but of those who "manage change" not managing to give enough time for teac… Continue

Posted by stewart townsend on October 9, 2009 at 9:32am

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