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We spoke to Pauline Holbrook, deputy headteacher at Portland Academy, one of the runners-up in our special schools category with an idea to build a sensory woodland walk, and Robert Sergent-Fairley, an expert in building sensory gardens for schools, to find out how to build a stimulating outdoor learning spaceChoosing the right spaceA sensory... News in last 22 hr. 43 min. Careless farming could cost us benefits of GM crops Extreme therapy: Inside a hospital for dangerous minds Super-pests are fighting back against killer crops Third of all UK honeybee hives wiped out in wet winter Dawn of the water eaters: How Earth got its oxygen Up to half of all birds threatened by climate change Current news 13 June, 2013 22:48 USA > Cinema Music Culture Part Man, Part God, All Hunk NYT > Movies Movie Review ‘Man of Steel’ Depicts a Striving Stranger in a Strange Land Warner Bros Pictures Henry Cavill in "Man of Steel," directed by Zack Snyder More Photos » By MANOHLA DARGIS Published: June 13, 2013 At once frantically overblown and beautifully filigreed, “Man of Steel” will turn on everyone it doesn’t turn off Summer blockbusters... 13 June, 2013 22:48 USA > Cinema Music Culture Twinkly Totems of Fame, Theirs for the Taking NYT > Movies Movie Review A ‘Bling Ring,’ Lusting After Celebrity Trinkets Merrick Morton/A24 From left, Emma Watson, Claire Julien, Katie Chang and Taissa Farmiga in "The Bling Ring" By A O SCOTT Published: June 13, 2013 In her last two movies — the sublime “Somewhere” and the seductive “Marie Antoinette” — Sofia Coppola has focused her rigorous attention... 13 June, 2013 22:48 USA > Cinema Music Culture Clean Break Is Increasingly Hard to Make NYT > Movies Movie Review In ‘Aliyah,’ a Trip From France to Israel Is Dangerous Film Movement Cedric Kahn, left, and Pio Marmai portray brothers in Paris By STEPHEN HOLDEN Published: June 13, 2013 The anxiety that infuses the elliptical family drama “Aliyah” is underscored by Schoenberg’s feverish, brooding “Verklarte Nacht” That piece accompanies the... 13 June, 2013 21:29 USA > Cinema Music Culture Movie Review: A ‘Bling Ring,’ Lusting After Celebrity Trinkets NYT > Arts Movie Review Twinkly Totems of Fame, Theirs for the TakingA ‘Bling Ring,’ Lusting After Celebrity Trinkets Merrick Morton/A24 From left, Emma Watson, Claire Julien, Katie Chang and Taissa Farmiga in "The Bling Ring" By A O SCOTT Published: June 13, 2013 In her last two movies — the sublime “Somewhere” and the seductive “Marie Antoinette”... 13 June, 2013 21:27 USA > Health US court ruling on breast cancer genes a mixed blessing You can't patent a naturally occurring DNA sequence – but you can patent an altered product made from that sequence In simple terms, that's the ruling handed down today by the US Supreme Court in a long-awaited decision on the validity of patents for the breast cancer genes BRCA1 and BRCA2 Widely billed as a decision on whether human genes can be... 13 June, 2013 19:59 USA > Education Letters: Comprehensives do offer pupils a bright future Education news, comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk The Guardian, Thursday 13 June 2013 2059 BST Sir Michael Wilshaw: the Ofsted boss accuses secondary schools of failing bright pupils Guardian readers challenge his analysis Photograph: Andrew Fox Michael Wilshaw's conclusion is strange (Schools failing to nurture the brightest, says Ofsted chief, 13 June) Obviously selective schools select the... 13 June, 2013 19:30 USA > Education Why Ofsted is wrong about bright children in comprehensives | Peter Wilby Education news, comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk The Guardian, Thursday 13 June 2013 2030 BST Jump to comments (…) ‘Ofsted's comparison of results at 11 and 16 is an arbitrary one, apparently designed to put comprehensives in the worst possible light' Photograph: David Cheskin/PA More than four in 10 (41%) of the most able children who go to grammar schools fail to achieve their... 13 June, 2013 18:17 USA > Education Raise interest rates on old student loans, secret report proposes Education news, comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk Aditya Chakrabortty The Guardian, Thursday 13 June 2013 1917 BST Jump to comments (…) University students on graduation day: redrawing the terms of student loans taken out over the past 15 years would make them more expensive to pay back for 36 million borrowers in England alone Photograph: Alamy A confidential report commissioned by... 13 June, 2013 18:00 USA > Health Medieval bones yield 1000-year-old leprosy genome Mass graves of medieval leper colonies have yielded the oldest-ever full genome sequence of a human pathogen The achievement opens the way for studies of even older leprosy bacteria and similarly ancient strains of tuberculosis – work that could reveal how the diseases became plagues, and perhaps help efforts to control and eradicate them About... 13 June, 2013 17:39 USA > Fashion and Style HEAR THIS: NAVY ABANDONS ALL CAPS WSJ.com: Lifestyle MESSAGES SENT WITHIN THE US NAVY NO LONGER HAVE TO BE WRITTEN OUT IN ALL CAPITAL LETTERS Since the 19th century, all official Navy communications have been written that way, a legacy of primitive technology combined with the service's love of tradition But in the modern age, young sailors more accustomed to texting on their phones consider TYPING... 13 June, 2013 17:30 USA > Cinema Music Culture The Summer of Long Customs Waits WSJ.com: Travel Three-hour lines at US Customs checkpoints have caused so many travelers to miss connections that Miami International Airport set aside an auditorium filled with cots as an overnight shelter At Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, chairs are on standby, ready to be rushed in for extra-long immigration-hall waits And at New York's Kennedy International... 13 June, 2013 17:08 USA > Society Up to half of all birds threatened by climate change Between a quarter and a half of all birds, along with around a third of amphibians and a quarter of corals, are highly vulnerable to climate change These findings have emerged from the most comprehensive assessment to date of the impact of global warming on life Its results have led some researchers to warn of the need for unprecedented conservation... 13 June, 2013 16:44 USA > Education Phillip Blond needs to do his research on the impact of British academics Education news, comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk Phillip Blond argues that British academics "rarely seem to make an impact" Photograph: Graeme Robertson American writer Henry Mencken once noted that there is always an easy solution to every human problem: neat, plausible and wrong This week, Phillip Blond of the thinktank ResPublica outlined his own easy solution to the 'problem' of academics... 13 June, 2013 16:06 USA > Fashion and Style Are the Heat the Worst Great Team Ever? WSJ.com: Lifestyle Without question, Miami's Game 3 defeat in the NBA Finals was downright ugly Critics and analysts piled on, and even Heat forward LeBron James equated his performance to manure Of course, all's not lost for the Heat, who can even the series Thursday in Game 4 (9 pm ET, ABC) But even if the Heat still have a pulse against the Spurs, their likelihood... 13 June, 2013 16:05 USA > Health Heartbeat used to generate out-of-body experience Watching a video of your own body pulsing in time with your heartbeat can trigger an out-of-body experience The illusion shows that our experience of existing inside our body depends on both external and internal sensations We take for granted our bodily self-consciousness – the feeling of owning and being anchored in a body But out-of-body experiences... 13 June, 2013 16:00 USA > Education How to build a sensory garden at your school Education news, comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk A sensory garden should include items to stimulate all the senses whether it's touch, sound, sight, taste or smell Photograph: Alamy Browsing through the hundreds of ideas submitted to The School We'd Like competition, a sensory or wildlife garden jumped out as a project which many teachers were calling out for, especially at special schoolsBut... 13 June, 2013 15:57 USA > Society Third of all UK honeybee hives wiped out in wet winter (Image: Stephen Dalton/Natureplcom ) This lonely bee will be buzzing solo after British honeybees suffered their worst winter losses since records began in 2007 The British Beekeepers Association says that a third of all the country's honeybee colonies were lost in the winter of 2012/13 – more than double the attrition suffered the previous winter... 13 June, 2013 15:00 USA > Society Dawn of the water eaters: How Earth got its oxygen THE planet is in crisis The stench of death is everywhere as whole branches of the tree of life are pruned almost to oblivion – and all because of the waste gas pumped into the atmosphere by one incredibly successful species Welcome to Earth, 24 billion years ago This was arguably the most tumultuous episode in life's history It had been thriving... 13 June, 2013 14:28 USA > Education Research in brief – 13 June 2013 Education news, comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk Claire Shaw Guardian Professional, Thursday 13 June 2013 1528 BST Science and technology Photograph: Design Pics/Don Hammond/Getty Images/Design Pics RF • University of Nottingham Scientists have discovered a previously undetected layer in the cornea, the clear window at the front of the human eye The breakthrough could help surgeons to dramatically... 13 June, 2013 14:11 USA > Fashion and Style U.S. Open: Which Players Are the Merion Kind? WSJ.com: Lifestyle Ardmore, Pa In the 32 years since the US Open was last played here, Merion Golf Club has become almost as famous for being "obsolete" as for being the site of great historic tournaments—the 1930 US Amateur where Bobby Jones completed his Grand Slam, the 1950 US Open that Ben Hogan won 16 months after his nearly fatal auto accident, the 1971 US Open... Main in themes 20 May, 2013 11:00 USA > Today in History: Today in History for 20th May 2013 Today in History | HistoryOrb.com 325 - 1st Christian ecumenical council opens at Nicaea, Asia Minor 1217 - The Second Battle of Lincoln is fought near Lincoln, England, resulting in the defeat of Prince Louis of France by William Marshal, 2nd Earl of Pembroke 1293 - Earthquake strikes Kamakura Japan, 30,000 killed 1293 - King Sancho IV of Castile creates the Study of General Schools... 13 June, 2013 22:48 USA > Cinema Music Culture: Twinkly Totems of Fame, Theirs for the Taking NYT > Movies Movie Review A ‘Bling Ring,’ Lusting After Celebrity Trinkets Merrick Morton/A24 From left, Emma Watson, Claire Julien, Katie Chang and Taissa Farmiga in "The Bling Ring" By A O SCOTT Published: June 13, 2013 In her last two movies — the sublime “Somewhere” and the seductive “Marie Antoinette” — Sofia Coppola has focused her rigorous attention... 13 June, 2013 19:59 USA > Education: Letters: Comprehensives do offer pupils a bright future Education news, comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk The Guardian, Thursday 13 June 2013 2059 BST Sir Michael Wilshaw: the Ofsted boss accuses secondary schools of failing bright pupils Guardian readers challenge his analysis Photograph: Andrew Fox Michael Wilshaw's conclusion is strange (Schools failing to nurture the brightest, says Ofsted chief, 13 June) Obviously selective schools select the... 03 June, 2013 08:59 USA > Auto: Renault, Citroen hit by 10% drop in French car sales Tag auto industry Print 0 Send this page - auto industry - financial crisis - France - PSA Peugeot Citroen - Renault © afp France's new car registrations fell sharply in May, fresh data revealed Monday, with Renault and Citroen the hardest hit Only 148,554 new cars were registered last month, a 103 percent drop from the same period last year... 13 June, 2013 17:39 USA > Fashion and Style: HEAR THIS: NAVY ABANDONS ALL CAPS WSJ.com: Lifestyle MESSAGES SENT WITHIN THE US NAVY NO LONGER HAVE TO BE WRITTEN OUT IN ALL CAPITAL LETTERS Since the 19th century, all official Navy communications have been written that way, a legacy of primitive technology combined with the service's love of tradition But in the modern age, young sailors more accustomed to texting on their phones consider TYPING... 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Main Page Yottos | About Yottos | Advertising programs | Add news © 2013 Yot tos