News
NEW: 'Write in' TASC Booklets for Pupils
We have just published a high quality, full colour TASC booklet for primary age pupils to record their TASC thinking in. These 16 page booklets include full text and icon wheels, colour-coded pages for each segment of the wheel, notes pages and simple guidance on using TASC to improve your thinking. Use the booklets to save records of pupils creative thinking or to send home for sharing with parents and carers. Booklets cost from 35p each in bulk but you can order a trial Class Pack of 30 booklets for our SPECIAL INTRODUCTORY OFFER PRICE of £10 (that's a discount of £3.50 on the usual price). As usual, Members get a further 10% off. Please order from the online bookshop or phone us on 01227 453234. Order by February 15th for the Introductory Price. Feel free to order as many packs as you like for the introductory offer price.
TASC Story
New: TASC Story for children aged 7-11. A children's story illustrating the TASC process is now available for free download on the Free Resources page
Special Offer on TASC Twilights
It's proving quite difficult for schools to release staff for training at the moment, so we're offering a discount on Twilights. For a limited period, you can book a TASC Trainer for two Twilights of up to 3 hours each for up to 30 people (in total, equivalent to a full day's training) for only £699: that's at least £100 off our published prices (£300 off the published price for for a group of 30). The Twilights can be whenever you wish between now and Christmas 2010). In addition, schools that book Twilights will benefit from discounts of 10% off all books and 25% off our other products if purchased on the day.
To benefit from this offer, bookings must be made before March 31st 2010.
TASC and the Education White Paper
Your Child, Your Schools, Our Future: Building a 21st Century Schools System
'..today's young people will need to be able to learn and re-train, think and work in teams and to be flexible, adaptable and creative' (Summary Point 4)
TASC promotes teamwork, creative thinking and flexible working
Our education system should prepare '...every child to make a success of their life, developing the broader skills, knowledge and understanding that they will need for this future world' (Summary Point 5)
TASC helps pupils to acquire transferable skills they can use in future
'Every pupil will go to school where there is good behaviour' (Summary Point 8)
Schools using TASC report a reduction in low level disruptive behaviour
'Every pupil will go to a school where they are taught a broad, balanced and flexible curriculum including skills for learning and for life' (Summary Point 9)
TASC allows independence, creativity and a focus on real-life problem solving
Every pupil will go to a school where they are taught in a way that meets their needs...' (Summary Point 10)
TASC is inclusive: it provides a scaffold for those who need it and gives freedom to able pupils so that they can 'fly'
Footsteps Through the Mist
The first, semi-autobiographical, novel by Belle Wallace. This magical and poetic book is enchanting and thought-provoking. An inspiring read which reveals something of Belle's background and the roots of her passion for learning.
Set in South Wales in the forties, the novel vividly captures the life of Ellie Ewes, a gifted, sensitive, working-class girl growing up with poverty and prejudice. But the story is not just about Ellie’s fight to survive, it is about her personal triumphs as she laughs her way through problems, or explodes with anger when life gets tough. The older, professionally successful Ellie, steps back into her past, and recreates the agonies and ecstasies of her early life in absorbing detail. The style of the novel is an unusual and rich blend of lively, earthy, conversations, linked by the voice of the mature narrator, and the reflective comments of the adult Ellie retracing her footsteps through the mist of growing up. The novel is a superb patchwork of comedy and tragedy laced with laughter, longing, disappointment, tears, successes, love and hate.
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Reviews
I sat down this morning to just read a couple of chapters. - But then I couldn't put it down. - Because of the depth and richness of the reflective parts I shall have to re-read it again to appreciate the intensity of the words.
Sue Mordecai Senior Adviser for Bromley
Belle Wallace's first novel, --- arrives towards the latter stages of a highly distinguished professional career in education. --- it mirrors aspects of Belle's own memories, capturing as it does the sights, sounds, smells, hopes, fears, rages, kindnesses and child-epic incidents of a busy Welsh girlhood surrounded by sisters and evocations of a time long past. [the novel] - at times invoking hints of other writers, both Welsh (Dylan Thomas) and 'foreign' - Gerald Durrell, Joyce, Miss Read, even Lawrence.
Marie Huxtable, Senior Psychologist, Bath and NE Somerset
I am enjoying [the novel] - it is poignant, funny and refreshing--just like you.
Dorothy Sisk, Emeritus Professor, Lamar University, Texas
I think it is a remarkable work and so moving.
Julie Fitzpatrick, CEO NACE (National Association for Able pupils)
I have just read your [first novel] which I think is a brilliant book. --- I found myself underlining pages for reflection. It is touching and deeply moving on every page. The book really works for this reader. --- This is a fluent, engaging and memorable read. It is a small masterpiece you will want to read and to share with others. It is about going home and not being able to go home at the same time.
Michael Pomerantz, Senior Psychologist, visiting Professor, University of Sheffield
This novel presents a unique view --- of the challenges and triumphs faced by a highly gifted student who is raised in extreme poverty. Woven through this narrative are the colloquial customs and cultural traditions of a town in Wales --- Far more important, however, is the evolution of thought and experience of the central character, Ellie Hughes, as she creates her own world and ventures into new experiences beyond the daily chaos in which she finds herself. In addition, this novel is written in poetic prose, interspersed with conversational dialect, and is rich is imagery, metaphor and innuendo. Each verbal "image" needs careful thought and consideration, leading to an understanding far greater than the narrative itself, however gripping the events.
Dr Gillian Eriksson, University of Central Florida
Published Price: £9.99 inclusive of postage and packing (UK deliveries only: please add £6 for International deliveries).
You can order through the online shop, by phone (01227 453234) or email (admin@tascwheel.com)
New Conference dates now published on the Training Dates page
