Product reviews for Of Teaching, Learning and Sherbet Lemons

Having heard Nina Jackson speak at a recent head's conference in Cornwall I was keen to read “Of Teaching, Learning and Sherbet Lemons”. I was not disappointed. Read it, if only to remind you why we all do what we do-¦

The book takes as its starting point real questions from teachers to which Nina Jackson brings a fresh and pragmatic wisdom combining useful information, practical tools and resources and deceptively simple advice shot through with a -˜mission' to put the fizz back into classrooms often these days dulled by the straightjacket of much education policy and the terrifying workload teachers face.

As someone with a particular interest in a whole school approach to wellbeing for the whole school community I was pleased to find that questions related to the wellbeing of pupils and staff are present throughout the book underlying that emotional and physical wellbeing are the key ingredients for any school that wants to put the fizz front and centre.

I loved the eclectic and wide-ranging nature of the questions and the way they are presented, tempting the reader to dip in and be surprised.
I can see us using the ideas in our training and support for schools and the best review I can give is the number of copies we've bought to give to our teachers-¦ and we'll make sure we'll be taking sherbet lemons with us wherever we take the book-¦