Author Archives: Ant Heald

Last night Chloe produced the work below using Google Docs. I was privileged to be able to help her get started writing from the Warden’s point of view, then she wrote the rest without further help. Well done Chloe!

I quite often get students telling me that they've been unable to find any information on their chosen topic. Usually that's because they're not looking in the right places, or in the right ways. Sarah K commented the other day … Continue reading →

As I keep emphasising, although your eventual investigation and written coursework needs to be your own individual work, you are expected to research your topic area thoroughly, and that includes reading around the subject itself, and also finding out possible … Continue reading →

Look up ⇈ Links to individual students' investigation blogs are in one of the pages (if yours is not there, let me have the link pronto, please); the other page (Resources) has a coupy of the investigation booklet you were given. … Continue reading →

A powerful paen to the power of the library to shape minds. Yes: libraries have to respond to the challenge of a world where so much of the ‘reservoir’ of information that used to be restricted largely to physical library … Continue reading →

Try this from the Oxford English Dictionary Amplify’d from oed.com chilver, n. View as: Outline | Full entry Pronunciation:  /ˈtʃɪlvə(r)/ Etymology:  Old English cilfer-, cilfor-lǫmb ewelamb, corresponding to Old High German chilburra   A ewe-lamb: commonly   chilver-lamb n. Also … Continue reading →