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How do you eat an elephant…?

27 July 2020 by , and

…One bite at a time! There’s been a bit of a phenomenon taking off on twitter recently among trainee educational…

Raising awareness of pupils with Ehlers-Danlos syndromes / Hypermobility Spectrum Disorders.

15 July 2020 by , 4 comments

Increasingly Ehlers-Danlos syndromes (EDS) and the closely related Hypermobility Spectrum Disorders (HSD) are being diagnosed in some pupils but very…

Drawing the Ideal Safe School: an optimistic approach to returning to school

8 July 2020 by , 5 comments

Since UK schools closed to manage the COVID-19 pandemic one big question has dominated educational conversations: How are we going…

The Journey from Equality to Equity: A tale from the ‘Wee County’

2 July 2020 by and

Clackmannanshire is known as the ‘Wee County’ – the smallest mainland Local Authority in Scotland with a ‘Big Heart’. Context…

EPs and the tuition initiative: a disappointing silence?

29 June 2020 by , 3 comments

The Government has recently announced that funding will be made available for pupils to receive ‘catch up’ tuition. Although details…

Agents of hope

22 June 2020 by , 1 comment

In March, I decided to start a podcast called Agents of Hope, which is about Educational Psychology and hope. I’ve…

Pride: A month of celebration, remembrance and reflection

18 June 2020 by

June is Pride month – a time to celebrate LGBT identity and to build bridges and support between LGBT and…

Longer read: Pupil views around the Covid-19 pandemic: an opportunity for change in education?

We are currently living through one of the most life-shifting experiences in recent memory. There have been changes in the…

Black lives matter: educational professionals and the fight against racism

2 June 2020 by , 20 comments

I am an EP working in an outer-London borough, where like many other London boroughs, Black and Minority Ethnic (BAME)…

Return to childhood: going back to school after the Covid-19 shut down

1 June 2020 by

Children are beginning to return to school, and they need to. Not just vulnerable children, and not just for the…