Award for Peterborough School. Bravery award for the consultancy sponsoring this award.

with all the bad news about league table positions of Peterborough schools it was great to see some good news in the local paper.

I am not a big fan of motivational acronyms but was impressed by this quote from the head teacher.

“Our motto here is Shine - which stands for successful, happiness, inspirational learning, nurture and excited. “Happiness is part of our ethos - we are driven more by Shine than we are by academic achievement or Ofsted.”

Read more at: http://www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/news/education/smiles-all-round-at-peterborough-school-named-happiest-in-the-country-1-8254318

This is fantastic, and seems to be backed up with some excellent ideas. Personally I love the idea of a broad curriculum especially one that finds plenty of room for arts, culture and nature. 

I was curious to find out who had conferred this award. It turns out to be a consultancy called "Laughology". 

Now that's a very brave name for a consultancy in this era of cruel but brilliant satire from the likes of the w1a and David Brent. I don't think even the script writers of w1a would have come up with as ridiculous a name as "laughology". 

The website is also brave because it comes close to self parody. The page below is a good example.