Ringing World 5167 (7 May 2010)

Front Cover: The Essex Ringing Course 2010
Thursday 8th to Saturday 10th April
by Tracey Southgate, PR Officer, EACR
The 20th Essex Ringing Course got underway at the Honywood School in Coggeshall, accompanied by some stunning weather across the three days, which made trotting around the glorious Essex countryside particularly enjoyable. Even the roadworks on the A12 couldn’t spoil the happy atmosphere as old and new students, helpers and tutors alike assembled over tea, coffee and biscuits.

Learning – what helps, what hinders
2. Styles of Learning: Visual, Auditory and Kinaesthetic
by Wendy Graham
While each individual has his or her own way of learning, with its little personal quirks, there are three basic styles in which people learn: Visual, Auditory and Kinaesthetic (learning by doing). Almost everyone uses all three of these to some degree but, equally, almost everyone has a preferred style of learning. It is very useful, indeed, I would say, essential, that a teacher should consider and identify a pupil’s “natural” style of learning because then teaching in the way the pupil learns best, most quickly and clearly, can take place. The pupil will feel less muddled and more comfortable, a good teacher/pupil rapport will be easier to establish, so the atmosphere will be happier, the pupil more co-operative, the teacher more satisfied and, one sincerely hopes, progress good.

Letters
Warding off Alzheimer’s - Jo Barton
Ringing and dementia
Another Maundy recipient - Fabian McStedman
1948 photograph - Brian Harris

The Sight of Gentle Maiden Deftly Handling of a Rope by Steve Coleman
5. The Girl’s Own Paper
Nowadays we’re always putting recruitment articles in the Parish Magazine and local paper. Didn’t they write articles like that 100 years ago, and if they did, what did they look like?

Obituary
Stephen Ivin - concluded from last week

Essex Association moves to exclude convicted sex offenders
Whilst most of us relaxed and enjoyed the Bank Holiday, the Essex Association AGM debated a motion that, if passed, would exclude convicted sex offenders from being members of the Association. The meeting heard arguments both for and against the proposal before a paper ballot resulted in the motion being carried.

Thought for the week
After a peal recently, the view was expressed that the method did not suit the bells, or perhaps it was the other way round. A method with lots of dodging and changes of direction is hard work on heavy slow-moving bells. Being able to hear the bells is another factor which affects whether particular methods go well or not.

Poet’s Corner
All Wrung Out
(Written by Dan Earthquake from conversations overheard in the Bell Public House, Harborne – next door to St Peter’s Church)
Monday nights at nine in the Bell, that’s where the arguments grow,
“Follow the line and not the word,” is a conversation I’ve often heard.
At the next table they think phone numbers are being exchanged:
I’ve seen many an eavesdropper putting Tittums into their phonebook in the hope of a good time, perhaps thinking that Whittingtons is an upmarket massage parlour somewhere behind Broad Street.