Budleigh Past and Present

I've just received an alert for the April 2010 newsletter of Stony Brook Elementary School in Budleigh Salterton's sister-town of Brewster, and as an ex-teacher I read it with interest. Perhaps UK blog readers involved in education might find something of interest here to see how they do things in an American elementary school. http://nausetschools.org/brewster/stony/documents/April2010.pdf After my recent posts about prehistoric lizards and tyrannosaurus-like house-crushing excavators I noticed that apparently the Stony Brook school's Open Court unit on fossils has stimulated a high interest in dinosaurs among the children. http://budleighbrewsterunited.blogspot.com/2010/03/triassic-lizard-finds-new-home-in.html and http://budleighbrewsterunited.blogspot.com/2010/04/foolish-thing-to-happen.html "If your child would like to learn more about dinosaurs or fossils, click on to http://paleobiology.si.edu/ " we are told. "It is especially fun to visit the museum...