Recorded: Monday 28th May 2007- Wairoa, New Zealand
Edcast3: Cool Schools
(if it will not play or plays double speed try right clicking and Save Target As- apologies for this a technical problem I can’t seem to fix at this time)
Bio:
Lynley Hyslop is a co-director in her company Praxis Promotions Limited, a professional 
development organisation in the Hawkes Bay, New Zealand. She is contracted to The Peace Foundation to facilitate Cool Schools a peer mediation programme to primary schools in Hawkes Bay. She has a background in classroom teaching, Resource Teaching of Learning and Behaviour support for classroom teachers and in senior management.
Lynley kindly recorded herself as she introduced Cool Schools in a school on the East Coast of New Zealand.
This podcast is divided into two unequal halves.
The first is a discussion I had with Lynley about the Cool Schools programme and the latter is the recorded training session.
It is hoped that as you listen you appreciate, as I did, the potential for students to take responsibility in the playground, develop key life skills in dealing positively with conflict.
Links:
Peace Foundation
Cool Schools-Peer mediation programme
Contact- Email Peace Foundation
Producers of Edcast:
Simon Evans -email
Louise von Randow
ANZAC day today in Australia and here in
New Zealand. They choose this date as a day of Remembrance for veterans and fallen comrades-in-arms as it is the anniversary of the beach landing at Gallipoli.
We, as a family, attended a service in Havelock North and stood together with many others as the third and fourth generation. When I was explaining it to my kids in class yesterday it dawned on me that it is closing in on 100 years ago.
Kids nowadays, I thought, but then it is a long time ago and perhaps it IS on the shoulders of schools and community groups to fan the flame of remembrance.
The community constable spoke about his father being in the 2nd World War as a merchant seaman…. ‘not so glamorous for a 7 year old boy into spitfires and hurricanes’ he said.
I found his talk most helpful though, as I consider that it was my Grandfather who parachuted into France on D-Day. My other grandfather fire fighting at
Manchester docks during the Blitz. My Great-Grandfather, I discovered over the Easter break who sat, rear facing in biplane, machine gun in hand during WWI.
Then I’m there with MY son, another generation further on and I’m going to be explaining about his Great-Grandfather and Great-Great-Grandfathers…. I’m not saying we should forget, all I am saying is it becomes harder and harder to remember, to explain. But we must.
