The Curious Case of the Muddy Trousers Somewhere between the invention of wet wipes and the rise of high-gloss playrooms, dirt quietly slipped off the guest list of childhood. It used to be a central character—smeared across cheeks, caked into fingernails, lurking ominously inside rain boots. Now? Dirt’s been demoted, banned to the borders of […]

Gardening is not usually invited into the curriculum meeting. It loiters in the background like a bloke with soil on his boots, waiting for someone to realise he’s holding the solution to half the school’s engagement problems. And when it comes to maths—long considered the most joyless of necessary evils—there’s something perversely satisfying about replacing