Easter Holidays Research Articles

Conference season

Once again the Easter holidays saw a flurry of action as three of the main education unions held their annual conferences, making headlines across the national press. Pete Henshaw and Dorothy Lepkowska were at all three events for SecEd looking behind the

Contemporary Obstetrics and Gynaecology for Developing Countries

Contemporary Obstetrics and Gynaecology for Developing Countries

Anniversary Address 2003

This year the Anniversary is not celebrated on St George's Day because of the difficulties of the date of Easter and other public holidays, but this is not as late as the Anniversary Address has sometimes been delivered – as one discovers by consulting the dates in the Proceedings of the Society. In those historic volumes, the changing fortunes of the Society, as well as the preoccupations of the Presidents, are vividly – often sonorously – recorded. It strikes me, though, that in reviewing the year past, it is often not prudent to envisage the year ahead in similarly explicit terms. In the year of 1914, just before the outbreak of the First World War, our President Sir Charles Hercules Read began his Anniversary Address with noteworthy complacency: ‘I am happy in meeting you again … to record a prosperous year. Although it has not been marked by any outstanding events, we have pursued our even course usefully, I think, and may regard our present position with a fair amount of satisfaction’ (Proceedings, XXVI, 165).

The Stations of the Sun: A History of the Ritual Year in Britain

The Origins of Christmas The Twelve Days The Trials of Christmas Rites of Celebration and Reassurance Rites of Purification and Blessing Rites of Hospitality and Charity Mummers' Play and Sword Dance Hobby-Horse and Horn Dance Misrule The Reinvention of Christmas Speeding the Plough Brigid's Night Candlemas Valentines Shrovetide Lent The Origins of Easter Holy Week An Egg at Easter The Easter Holidays England and St George Beltane The May May Games and Whitsun Ales Morris and Marian Rogationtide and Pentecost Royal Oak A Merrie May Corpus Christi The Midsummer Fires Sheep, Hay, and Rushes First Fruits Harvest Home Wakes, Revels, and Hoppings Samhain Saints and Souls The Modern Hallowe'en Blood Month and Virgin Queen Gunpowder Treason Conclusions.

Change of season

I felt a compulsion to return to the Roseland Peninsula in Cornwall late last autumn. My son had returned for his third university year, my daughter had left for her first university term. I felt very sad as one glorious autumn day succeeded another and I walked until I was exhausted. I felt full of memories, of endless summer and Easter holidays, of excited children running to beaches, of expeditions, of tired children trailing home, of prawning, sailing, picnics, crabbing—and later of long walks and evenings spent playing chess, racing demon or scrabble. All past. A chapter had closed, everything around me echoed and I mourned for what had passed. I remember vividly sitting alone gazing at a favourite view, acknowledging my womb had done its work, and how immensely sad that felt.

Project Circus: Report on a Project with 11-14-Year-Old Pupils

The last day of school before the Easter holidays. After twelve weeks of hectic and intensive preparation, we're ready. The first performance!

Regional provision for visually impaired children in western France

During the Easter holidays (1993) the author visited a school for visually impaired children in western France and had an opportunity to discuss the varied provisions which support children of all ages and abilities. Issues relating to funding, staffing and resources were addressed, and facilities at the school were viewed and evaluated. The findings open the way for comparisons between educational provision for visually handicapped children in the United Kingdom and in other European countries.

Science, technology and industry in the Easter holidays

Science, technology and industry in the Easter holidays

Teacher Stress over a School Year

Abstract: Makinen, R. & Kinnunen, U. 1986. Teacher Stress over a School Year. Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research 30, 55‐70. The accumulation of and recovery from stress among teachers was studied longitudinally over a period of 14 months. Variables related to psychological state and health together with hours of work, free time and night time rest, and the quality of interpersonal relations were measured repeatedly (17 times) in a group of 187 teachers. The results indicate accumulation of stress during the autumn term with the result that weekend recovery disappears in November‐December. The Christmas, mid‐winter and Easter holidays seem to prevent stress accumulation during the spring term. As to inter‐individual differences in stress indicators, moderate concurrent correlations with time budget variables (up to .40) as well as with social relations (up to .59) were revealed. True predictive correlations from the autumn term to the spring term, however, were shown only by the quality of teache...

Young volunteers and holiday playschemes in the hospital setting

The idea of introducing young volunteers into the hospital setting may be lacking in universal appeal for a variety of reasons. Our experience, however, suggests that the potential of young people involved in voluntary work with long‐stay patients, both children and adults, should not be undervalued.Following a successful pilot scheme in 1977, Youth Action York (a voluntary organisation concerned with, among other things, the social education of young people) was again approached by the senior administrative staff of Claypenny Hospital, Easing‐wold, North Yorkshire, to undertake a similar play‐scheme during the Easter holidays of 1978. The resultant 5‐day residential playscheme was based on two equally important objectives — a well organised, effective programme which would serve the best interests of the children taking part and the provision of a fruitful learning situation for the volunteers involved.

10 Years of "Ankole sacred music" in the Diocese of Mbabara

In Uganda, the very first attempts to introduce Sacred Music in African style into divine worship were made in the Diocese of Mbabara (West Uganda) in the year 1955. were made in the Diocese of Mbabara (West Uganda) in the year 1955. During the initial stage the experiments did not meet with the approval of everybody. The same has been experienced in various other African countries. Therefore a Musical Study Week was held at Mbabara during the Easter holidays in 1959 and was attended by over 50 musical Banyankore, lay- people as well as religious. Many different musical problems were dealt with, but of course special attention was given to producing Ankole Sacred Music and the possibility of introducing it into the Liturgy.

The Perkin Tradition

DURING the Easter holidays of 1856, a young man of eighteen years of age was experimenting at home in Shadwell in chemistry. He followed up the coloured product of the reaction instead of chasing after a more orthodox crystal line substance and, strangest of all, had the curiosity to try to dye silk with it. A mauve skein resulted, and the aniline dye industry was born!

Die Organisation der Turbellaria Acœla

Eight years ago Dr. von Graff published his great monograph of the Rhabdocœl Turbellarians. The improved methods of histological research have enabled him to add some essential facts since that date to our knowledge of one of the most curious groups of the Rhabdocœla—namely, those known as Acœla. In 1885 he passed his Easter holidays at the Franciscan convent on the Dalmatic island of Lesina, and on the sea-shore of the garden of the convent found Convoluta Schultzii and cinerea in abundance.

The Late Prof. Clifford's Papers

IN the “Mathematical Papers” (pp. 628-37) I was able to print the syllabuses of a series of ten lectures delivered by Prof. Clifford to a class of ladies at South Kensington in the spring and summer of 1869. Whilst turning over a collection of miscellaneous papers, in a box, Mrs. Clifford and I had the good fortune to light upon a manuscript quite ready for printing, and this (“Mathematical Papers,” p. 628) subsequently formed part of the volume on “Seeing and Thinking;” but we could not find any trace of any more manuscript of the above-mentioned series of lectures. Just before the recent Easter holidays Prof. Karl Pearson returned to me a few pages of manuscript bearing on the International Scientific Series volume which I had lent him, and with them he sent me a large note book which had been in the late Prof. Rowe's hands. On opening this book I at once saw that it contained very full notes of other lectures of the course. In fact, Lecture II. (“On Plane Surfaces and Straight Lines”) is quite ready for press, as is also, I think, Lecture III. (“On the Rotation of Plane Figures”); Lecture IV. (“Of Similar Figures”) is a fragment, and still more fragmentary is Lecture V. (“The First Principles of Calculation”). Of Lecture VI. (“The Theorem of Pythagoras”) there are two loose sheets of figures: on one sheet is “the Bride's Chair,” and the figures on this and the other sheet show that my information was correct, and that the remarks on pp. 633, 637 are ad rem. As Lecture IX. (“On the Shadows of a.Circle”) is very fully illustrated in the recent volume edited by Prof. Pearson, we see that we are in possession of a fairly complete presentment of Prof. Clifford's views on the subjects of the course of lectures.

The True Orbit of the Auroral Meteoroid of November 17, 1882

AFTER many fruitless efforts to conciliate the apparently widely diverging data, given by the numerous observations of this most interesting phenomenon; and after having been many times on the same point as Mr. H. D. Taylor (vol. xxvii. p. 434), who has given the first approximate calculations of this orbit, namely, “to give up the reconciling of such contradictory evidence,” I have devoted my Easter holidays to new research on the true orbit. Besides the encouraging letters received from some of the English observers, I found still another motive in the observation of Mr. Julius Dupire at Laon (France,β = 49° 34′), who had the kindness to give me ample information, for which I offer him my sincere thanks, and in the communication of the following citation, kindly given me by Prof. Ch. Montigny, of Brussels, taken from the Bulletin de l'Observatoire de Bruxelles, November 18, 1882: “À 6h. 23m. un énorme rayon d'un blanc vif s'éléva à l'horizon E.N.E.; il traversa le ciel en passant le zénith et alia s'éteindre à l'horizon O.S.O.” A similar phenomenon has been observed by Dr. F. Terby at Louvain. The great attraction of the Laon observation consisted in the fact that the meteor's apparent path was there seen at the north side of the zenith, this being in harmony with the Brussels zenith observation, and promising a good determination of the sought orbit.