Uniform...

This post from last year on the Guardian student blogging site is refreshing to read since it is written by a student (albeit not from Belmont).  Students and parents will regularly ask "How does uniform affect learning?" Some are in favour, several are not.  It is not the clothes themselves, as I think despite the questions, most people understand, it is what they represent. 
Apart from the 'Innocent Drinks' company  (that I know of) who have a very relaxed office ethos where people can wear what they wish to work and sit in large comfy chairs and the whole office layout has a look of 'laissez faire' to it to the external onlooker, most serious companies have strict standards and protocols.  However, when you look at Innocent more closely, their individuality is their uniform, their radical/unusual methods of human resource management is their testimony to their own systems built around their core beliefs.  All employees of Innocent make that method of management their equivalent to the more conventional rules and regulations in other organisations, as one thing they have in common are their core values - they have 'bought in' to their organisation just as students who wear uniform 'buy in' to their schools standards and expectations. 

All Change!

Things have changed quite a bit since I last added information and comments on this blog: job role, colleagues, assessment methods, qualifications being reviewed and updated, and the benchmarks for curriculum content being slimmed down (yet being very prescriptive). 


Hopefully I will add more comments to this blog, however it may less driven by curriculum but by the holistic approach taken when considering the impact of pastoral processes upon my thoughts and actions.