By Elijah Wisken “[…] at the heart of the challenge is the matter of the reasonableness of the School’s having engineered an outcome in which the Claimants had spent anything up to a fifth, a quarter, or approaching a half, of an academic year removed from classroom teaching. And that is the core question withContinue reading ““What Was The Alternative?”: A Pedagogical Exploration of R (EBB) v Gorse Academy Trust [2025]”
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Where’s the Wellbeing in the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill?
Ros McLellan and Catherine Fraser-Andrews March 2025 Introduction Given the well-documented concern about the poor state of children and young people’s wellbeing in England (Chollet et al., 2024), including reports of some of the lowest levels of child wellbeing across the world (UNICEF Innocenti, 2020), it is a welcome development to see The Children’s WellbeingContinue reading “Where’s the Wellbeing in the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill?”
Travels with my SIG…
By The Wellbeing and Inclusion Committee In Grame Greene’s novel Travels with My Aunt (Greene, 1977), the protagonist, Henry, lives in a suburban and predictable world. His encounter with his vivacious and counter-cultural Aunt Augusta, and their subsequent adventures together, expand Henry’s world immeasurably. Through his travels with his aunt, Henry recognises the prejudice andContinue reading “Travels with my SIG…”
When fieldwork is disrupted…. what to do and how to move forward
As anyone embarking on primary research knows, recruiting participants and schools is a difficult business. Daily, the student population was dwindling as children and staff stayed at home through ill health or fear. Some parents were now supervising classes as staff were unable to come into work, and I watched with a sense of helplessness as absences grew. On the 18th March, the Headteacher requested that I leave the school site. Rightly, his priority was to protect the school and prepare for the inevitable lockdown that we all suspected was coming. Just two days later, the Prime Minister ordered that all schools and colleges in the UK close.
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