Pete Wharmby's Autism and Teaching Blog

I am coming at this purely from an angle of experience - please bear that in mind.  However, I have always had considerable success in helpi...

Asperger's syndrome, being on the autistic spectrum, is a combination of three key areas of daily difficulty: social interaction, social...

Hello.  It's that time of year again - the fortnight of horrible Thursdays.  Results day scares me a great deal.  It is partly the impor...

This started off as a pun on the name of a fairly damp and uninspiring town in the UK, known for its vast music festival every August.  Once...

Day 1 Having the sick bucket beside my leg is no qualification.  Upon rumour of sickness at the front of the bus, the bucket was passed no...

The haunting, insistent tapping music created on a load of old planks, carried by a young and inventive cast, proved a high point in this in...

The big question here is 'why not'?  Ben Goldacre is completely correct in saying that if we want to be treated as professionals, th...

I love Steinbeck's novella about two guys so much, that I fancy writing about it on a grim grimy morning. So here we go.  If this is use...

The council had decided it.   The beautiful village needed a bypass, and quickly.   Deaths on the main road had been occurring all too often...

Here's my first attempt at properly drawn Pets, without the aid of a computer.  They look a bit different, but I'm sure that;'s ...

When it comes to teaching literature we all have our favourites: books that we have taught many times and feel incredibly comfortable with. ...

Performance-related pay will arrive, unwanted, in September – like a train full of dead cows pulling into Winchester.  There is seemingly ...

What is more vital? Teaching of knowledge or skills?  Anyone with sense will know that they are symbiotic - they work together to improve st...

A week into the new term and I'm feeling more positive about the whole teaching thing.  More effort put into my planning (see an earlier...

I play Minecraft.  There, I've admitted it.  I play it because it's fun, cheap, provides endless leisure, and allows me to utilise m...

Last night I noticed a few folk on Twitter were guffawing at the antics of the Department of Education's twitterfeed (@educationgovuk), ...

Hello everyone.  It's a cold December 1st, and now the joy I gained from my advent calendar has waned, it's time for another post. ...

When I moved to my current school, I was given an all-boys Yr 10 class.  They were the disinterested, naughty, often hostile students that h...

How can it be that Virginia Woolf is missing, or under-represented, from the majority of A-Level English Literature specifications, ?  Tru...

I'm going to write a blog.  Everyone else is doing it, so I suppose I ought to join in and see what happens.  I cannot say exactly what ...