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Bloggers Year Book

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Today I have been reading about a Bloggers Year Book to be collated by Tara at Sticky Fingers. This has been inspired by people posting old school photos as part of this week’s The Gallery theme of Education. I did not post my school photos but would very much like to be included in the year book so am posting some photos here. These are all quite early pics through primary to Year 7, I think. They were all taken in the 80s.

I wonder if regular readers of my blog see any likeness between me and Esther and William? I would be really interested to know.

Year Book Photo Collection

The Gallery – Education

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If children live with encouragement,
They learn confidence.
If children live with tolerance,
They learn to be patient.
If children live with praise,
They learn to appreciate.
If children live with acceptance,
They learn to love.
If children live with approval,
They learn to like themselves.
If children live with honesty,
They learn truthfulness.
If children live with security,
They learn to have faith in themselves and others.
If children live with friendliness,
They learn the world is a nice place in which to live.

Copyright © 1972/1975 by Dorothy Law Nolte

As soon as I saw the brief for this week’s The Gallery I thought of this poem that I have displayed on my classrom door and in my home. It is a reminder that children learn what they live, education is about so much more than what is taught and learned in schools. Education is about family, community, experience, exploration and reflection.

I have always loved learning. I consider myself well educated, academically, socially and personally. I enjoy education.

The pictures I have chosen to share show me getting to grips with guiding something that played a huge part in my early years and a community that helped me learn who I was and who I wanted to be. This experience, the explorations, the people provided me with the values discussed in the poem that I used to start this post.

Children learn what they live, all life is an education, we are all learning all of the time.

What a great theme for The Gallery. Hop on over to Tara’s blog to see what other people have made of education this week.

003/365 First Garden Adventure

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Though Esther and William were born in the summer by the time they came home from NICU it was mid-Autumn and they were not able to make use of our garden. Today, for the first time, we were able to put a rug down outside and go and play on the grass. This photo captures their first al fresco exploration of our home. They have of course been out for walks and out of the house but this is their very first outdoor play. The photo shows our garden backing on to the village green with a view to the church where later this year we will be married and next year Esther and William will be christened. I took 152 photos today but this one had to be the shot of the day for the story that it tells, rather than any skill or design in the picture itself.

Esther and William’s First Garden Adventure

Garden Adventure Numbr One!

Photo 365 Introduction and 001/365

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Today I am starting the Photo 365 Challenge. I know that it is usual to start this in January but I am in need of a new challenge and photography is something that I long to be better at so this seemed the right way to go. I am going to try hard to take good, different photos and improve my skills and my blog in the process.

To start the challenge I am going to introduce two young models who I think will feature quite heavily in my photos to come. My very nearly 8 month old twins, Esther and William.

Esther and William were born at 27 weeks and 3 days gestation on 24th July 2010. In 8 months they have come on in leaps and bounds. At their corrected age of very nearly 5 months they are rolling at will and caterpillar crawling around the floor. They can sit independently for a few seconds a a time and have in the last few days developed a love of bubbles and balloons. They are becoming quite chatty in their funny little way though it is hard to make out separate sounds when they have all of their fingers stuffed in their mouths!! Poor teething babies! I hope to get lots of improving shots of them as they change and grow.

I hope you will stick with me throughout the challenge.

Here is Photo 001

Introducing Esther and William to 365

The Gallery – Trees

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I hope that I am just in time to join Tara’s weekly Gallery. The theme this week of trees made me immediately think of one photo, of one tree. The Tree of Gondor!

Any regular reader of this blog will know that my favourite film is Lord of the Rings. In Middle-earth there is one tree that matters, The Tree of Gondor.

In Spain, between the village of Parcent and the mountain top castle Guadelest there is a tree just like it, my very own Tree of Gondor and this is it.

The Spanish Tree of Gondor

The Tree of Gondor Again

I love in this second photo that my Mum is lurking in the background. It always makes me smile.

Hope I have managed to get my entry in on time to this very popular Gallery theme.