Leadership that makes a difference- Gladstone Primary

The school where they speak 20 languages: a day at Gladstone Primary | Education | The Guardian: "That was when Gladstone Primary School in Peterborough was judged "inadequate" by Ofsted, the teaching inspectorate's lowest mark. The school was ordered to improve, and was inspected with alarming regularity until it did. After a stressful 16 months, Ofsted has finally issued a glowing report. "Standards are rising rapidly. Pupils are making good progress often from a low starting point," judged inspectors. The behaviour of children at the school had always been good – in one report last year inspectors described pupils as "delightful" – but now the school was performing well academically. The head was praised for expecting high standards and for having "significantly improved the school"; the school was graded "good" in every aspect."

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Leadership that makes a difference- Gladstone Primary

The school where they speak 20 languages: a day at Gladstone Primary | Education | The Guardian: "That was when Gladstone Primary School in Peterborough was judged "inadequate" by Ofsted, the teaching inspectorate's lowest mark. The school was ordered to improve, and was inspected with alarming regularity until it did. After a stressful 16 months, Ofsted has finally issued a glowing report. "Standards are rising rapidly. Pupils are making good progress often from a low starting point," judged inspectors. The behaviour of children at the school had always been good – in one report last year inspectors described pupils as "delightful" – but now the school was performing well academically. The head was praised for expecting high standards and for having "significantly improved the school"; the school was graded "good" in every aspect."

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A Shark Tragedy

Sharks at risk of extinction from overfishing, say scientists | Environment | guardian.co.uk: "Sharks risk being driven to extinction due to overfishing, with almost 100 million killed each year, scientists have warned.

Many species of shark need better protection to prevent their extinction within coming decades, researchers warned in advance of a global conference on the trade in threatened species.

The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (Cites) will consider greater protection of vulnerable sharks, including porbeagles, oceanic whitetip and three types of hammerhead to preserve their populations.

Sharks are caught for their fins for use in shark fin soup, a delicacy in Asia. The fins are cut off with the dead carcass being thrown back into the sea. Sharks grow slowly and take years to reproduce, which makes them vulnerable to overfishing."

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Italian or French- the Language Delicacy

Quebec language police try to ban 'pasta' from Italian restaurant menu | World news | guardian.co.uk: "They are known as the language police, a unit within the regional Quebec government that seeks to protect French from the rising tide of English. It deploys inspectors to rein in recidivist anglophones, take on big corporate transgressors such as Guess, the Gap and Costco and conduct spot checks to follow up thousands of public complaints.

Now, however, zealots in the Office québécois de la langue française (Quebec Board of the French Language) may have gone a step too far in picking a fight with an Italian restaurant known for its celebrity clientele including Bono, Rihanna, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jerry Seinfeld and Robert De Niro.

After a five-month investigation into an anonymous complaint, Massimo Lecas received a letter from the board telling him that his establishment, Buonanotte, had broken the law by including the words "pasta" on the menu and "bottiglia", the Italian word for bottle, instead of the French word bouteille."

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