Letter from James Cooley Fletcher (2) In this seven page personal letter to Sampson Low, James Cooley Fletcher writes qui...te a lot about wine and the bottles he sent for the Lows' 50th wedding anniversary. He also refers to the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Rev James Hamilton (author of hyms) as well as quoting one of John Greenleaf Whittier's psalms.
School This episode follows students with Asperger's, Down's Syndrome and other special ne...eds whose future level of funding to support them in a mainstream school is currently the subject of intense national debate. The Castle School in rural south Gloucestershire supports the largest proportion of pupils with Special Educational Needs (SEN) in the Trust. It is well known for its commitment to students of all abilities. As the school is forced to make savings to its overall budget, the support staff wh
The managers : episode 1 - Tennis coach Sven Groeneveld There was a moment when Sven Groeneveld realised he wasn't going to be a great tenn...is player, he knew he wasn't going to be able to emulate the great players of the day such as Bjorn Borg, Jimmy Connors and John McEnroe, or that he wasn't going to be able to compete with the best players and make his living playing the game.But what Sven also realised was that he could see things in the other players, read a match, second guess what the game plan would be, what a certain player was doing wrong,
Child of Our Time 3 : Right and wrong 'One of the first experiments we tried in this programme was to see if our children... could distinguish between actions such as stealing sweets or not saying thank you, leaving their room untidy or kicking their family pet. Most of our children knew immediately that kicking or stealing are 'worse' or 'more naughty' than talking in class or leaving your room untidy. Scientists call this the ability to distinguish between what is morally wrong from what is merely a social convention. They think it c