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On the first climbing wall it was too easy except from the one bit when it was tilting us backwards .You may notice that on the second climbing wall isaac was climbing a lot better than me because it was easier on that side of the climbing wall than the side i am on.We soon switchched over.

joe

Isaac has written a game and would like you to see it. The crabs eat the lobsters. It’s a two player game – the crab is controlled with ‘a’ and ‘d’ keys for left and right, and the lobsters are controlled with the ‘left’ and ‘right’ arrow keys.

It takes a while to load, so please be patient.

Play Isaac’s game.

He’s red.

Joe is winning.

(Work in progress).

Jenni Russell has written this piece on what might be going wrong in education.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/jul/28/education.labour

"On the day before the Commons rose last week, the government quietly issued its response to the children's select committee, which had spent months taking evidence on whether the focus on testing was distorting children's education. The committee's report had been thorough and merciless. It concluded that while England needed a testing system, the existing one was damaging. It turned students off learning, and was in urgent need of reform."

and…

"This culture of brazen denial comes right from the top. In an interview last month, Balls was asked about the fact that, in most schools, even seven-year-olds spend much of their year being anxiously coached and drilled in Sats techniques. They are put under such pressure because teachers' jobs and schools' futures depend on good results. That's the system of reward and punishment his department has constructed. But Balls simply denied it was true - and claimed he would be horrified if it were."