Dame Alison’s New Year’s Priorities
As we open the new pages of 2023, we say goodbye to another turbulent year. While we will all have hoped to focus on Covid recovery, new stresses and strains have distracted us.
2022 End of Year Member Reflections
It’s important that we celebrate our professional accomplishments no matter how small, especially in a time where we’re constantly facing newer and scarier challenges.
Schools as congregations of compassion: Rebuilding children’s mental wellbeing
As I reflect on the impact of Children’s Mental Health Week 2022, I am struck by the power of the week’s key messages. From the Children’s Commissioner reporting a 50 per cent rise in children’s mental health needs since 2017.
2021 End of Year Teacher Reflections
While not quite as bad as 2020, 2021 has been an eventful year. But, in the midst of virus mutations and political turbulence, we’ve had a few brief moments of normalcy: lockdowns have been lifted, and pupils once again returned to schools.
A look at the research on extending school days, length of terms and supporting learning
According to news reports, the government is looking at a range of options to deal with any ‘lost learning’ as a result of COVID.
Chartered College of Teaching letter to the Prime Minister
The Chartered College of Teaching has written to the Prime Minister and the Secretary of State for Education setting out five areas relating to reopening that still need to be addressed by the Government