[00:06.78]High School where we were taught home economics
[00:09.13]accounting,typing,car mechanics,taught
[00:12.29]to drive…it's really hard to think of anything
[00:14.83]It was a very well rounded…
[00:16.86]lots of choices available.
[00:19.09]3 Now listen to a radio interview with William
[00:24.16]Atkinson,the head teacher of Phoenix High
[00:27.03]School in London,in which he discusses the life
[00:30.13]skills that they try to teach in his school.
[00:34.39]In what practical ways do you try to prepare
[00:37.27]your pupils for life in the adult world after
[00:39.77]they've left school…for being a member of the
[00:42.19]community,as it were?
[00:44.13]There are a number of ways in which we try to
[00:46.02]teach citizenship within our school.
[00:48.46]First of all through our assembles-we have
[00:50.49]daily assemblies in the school,and through
[00:52.87]those we get across issues to do with the
[00:55.68]organization of management and the living
[00:57.65]together,because citizenship is all about,
[01:00.21]fundamentally,it's about people living together
[01:02.65]it's about people organizing their group in a
[01:06.23]way that allows people to flourish and no one
[01:09.52]individual to have an undue influence
[01:11.91]on what is actually going on.
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