So – who's going to the Cloud Conference?
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Sorry I decided not to come as the ticket prices looked to be £100+ which was more than I was prepared to pay. I hope the conference goes well.
-Mike
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Gini, I am going to fly with Mike.
But I am very glad you have resurfaced – I am sponsoring a project relating my two hobbies of clouds and trees. CAS have agreed to adopt a tree (a cultivar with a flat base habit like cotton wool clouds). If all goes to plan it could involve children and education. Do you still have a CAS Forum hat saying ‘Special Interest Education’? If so would you be prepared to act as CAS’ mentor to Hillier Gardens (which is not the same as Hillier Nurseries and Garden Centres), with your experience in teaching clouds to children? In the link below (the Schools and Learning tab) as part of the curriculum they teach is a section on Weather – I am hoping they will wish to emphasise clouds more specifically:
http://www3.hants.gov.uk/hilliergardens/hillier-schools.htm‘H’
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Sorry I won’t be meeting you or Mike at the Conference, ‘H’- maybe we can consider doing some regional mini-conferences next year if there’s enough interest….
Yes, I still wear an ‘education hat’ for the Forum, even though there is no longer a dedicated education section (and despite the fact that I retired from teaching three years ago) and the Hillier Gardens work sounds interesting. I note that the weather topic is designed for Foundation Stage children – my experience is with Key Stage 2, so the lessons I designed were mostly Language/Literature and Science based for children from 9 to 11. If this is of any use, I would be happy to help.
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Thank you, Gini. I will pass your words to SHHGA Education and if they would like some advice I will try and e-mail you via CAS.
The actual tree adoption timing is drifting out (I guess CAS are too busy right now). I forgot to say the tree, Acer platanoides ‘Globosum’, has a common name Lollipop (another is mop-head).
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Had a really great time yesterday. The added bonus of meeting the authors ( and speaking to them),of books which i have treasured, and enjoyed was an extra bonus. I think i was sitting next to Dr No from the above post. We talked about how it takes a very clever person to describe something complicated…….simply.Well havent got to Glastonbury yet, but yesterday was close enough. Big thankyou to gavin, and all the other CAS staff for putting on a great day.
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