exactly did I end up studying English? First of all, as a kid, I was so sure I would be a hairdresser or a teacher or a cook in the future. I am sure that almost every kid thinks the same, when all they have for inspiration are cartoons and toys to play with. When I started school, I was very interested in mathematics and other subjects that required logical thinking, because apparently I was smart in that area at the time. Up until 6th grade I was the best student in our class, winning mathematic competitions left and right and not only that. By that time I had also found out that I loved to write, specially poems and I used every opportunity to submit my works for competitions and I had the luck to win some of them. It felt good to be one of the best students in our class. As the school went on and I finally found myself in 9 th grade, just before the exams, and I realised that in the following years after my graduation from elementary school, my
Which I find is fantastic children should be driving force forward what is happening in the education system. Gerli: So it means that children have valuable contribution to give to the curriculum planning? How they can contribute valuable insight to curriculum planning.. Mr Richards: to a point yes, but as I said earlier there are aspects in the curriculum where you have to accept how things are, like you can`t affect the change in mathematic theories, but it’s the way things have developed and the school ethos, and school being a learning environment that make children confident, allowing to access them to the curriculum. That the key thing I find how things are learnt in school not what subjects we teach. Gerli: Thank you, you have answered most of my questions already, so I have got few left to ask. In relation to citizenship education, is teaching about or for citizenship is different in Wales?