It’s been an odd twelve months with respect to data. I’ve spent the last two decades as a deputy and head teacher chucking as much aggregated data into the Data Monster, similar beasts exist in schools up and down the country, only to have now become an aggregated data minimalist. Continue reading
As part of our Trust’s new Business Plan we developed a set of ten objectives to focus our work over the next three years. One was about “Developing Healthy Minds & Healthy Mindsets” based on our desire to be involved in Blackpool’s HeadStart programme and some preliminary work on Growth Mindsets. Continue reading
Reports are increasing about the fragile mental health of our young people. In disadvantaged areas the pressure of examinations and growing up in a complex World are further impacted on by poverty. Life is often more stressful for disadvantaged families and their children. Continue reading