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Spring 2011 Tour
10:25am Monday, 20th December 2010

We are delighted to announce our Spring 2011 tour to Special Schools
Crazy Hair is adaptation of Neil Gayman’s enchanting and imaginative children’s story and is generously funded by The Esmee Fairbairn Foundation which also funded last year’s acclaimed tour of “Where The Wild Things Are”
Some of the feedback received from the tour of Where the [...]

Building Belief
4:06pm Saturday, 10th July 2010

This month’s drama idea

Building belief

For this month’s bite I am indebted to Dawn Bowden a drama practitioner with tons of experience working with learning difficulties and in main stream settings.  She sent me the story below after receiving June’s Bamboozle bite.  In it she describes some of the strategies she used to build belief in [...]

Hand Under Hand
4:04pm Saturday, 10th July 2010

This month’s multi-sensory activity

Hand under Hand
Sometimes students at the more complex end of the learning difficulty spectrum don’t readily explore their environment of their own volition.  Let’s say we are learning about the sea and have a large conch shell that we think will be interesting to touch with its rough outside and pearl smooth [...]

Family Project Development Worker
12:11pm Thursday, 8th July 2010

Great news! We have secured funding for a one day a week Family Project Development Worker at Bamboozle. The funding has come from The Lloyds TSB Foundation for England and Wales and will allow us to engage an individual for 1 day a week for 3 years to proactively develop Bamboozle’s programme of family projects. [...]

Internal Motivation
12:34pm Thursday, 17th June 2010

Have you ever had the experience of working with a student and finding it difficult to make a connection.  I know that I have and it can be very frustrating.  Despite all of our best intentions and bringing all our sensitivity to bear there seems to be resistance to anything that we suggest.  It may [...]

Shakespeare’s Tempest
12:29pm Thursday, 17th June 2010

Last week I saw a TV documentary on the Black Adder series. I had forgotten how brilliant it was. One of the things I really enjoyed about it was Baldrick’s cunning plans – particularly the one where he engraves his name on a bullet. He has heard that everyone has a bullet with “their name [...]