It’s a question that politicians, educators and parents have agonised over in recent months: what do children need after so much time away from school? We spoke to one primary school trust which is determined to do things differently this autumn; Lisa Worgan of Victoria Academies Trust explains in this blog how her team have created a curriculum that puts student experience and wellbeing at the centre of learning.

Each week we’ll be bringing you the best and brightest news from the education landscape. Whether it’s policy updates, teacher insights, or inspiration brought to us by young people, you’ll find the latest updates from week commencing 31st August 2020 here.

Each week we’ll be bringing you the best and brightest news from the education landscape. Whether it’s policy updates, teacher insights, or inspiration brought to us by young people, you’ll find the latest updates from week commencing 24th August 2020 here.

Each week we’ll be bringing you the best and brightest news from the education landscape. Whether it’s policy updates, teacher insights, or inspiration brought to us by young people, you’ll find the latest updates from week commencing 17th August 2020 here.

John Coleman is a psychologist with a long-standing interest in young people. He has written extensively about adolescent development, having worked in schools, universities and in research centres. His current interests are support for parents of teenagers, and the teenage brain. During lockdown he has been writing blogs and running workshops for parents and for professionals about the situation and how it may affect teenagers and their families. John kindly ran a workshop for us on this subject, so we asked him if he’d be happy to share some of his fascinating insight on our blog channel.