📿 This week Class 2 learned about multiplication and practiced skip counting by creating jewellery. This exercise helped Class 2 learn maths as well as improving their mobility skills - threading the numbers onto the elastic wasn't as easy as you'd think! #edutwitter #maths

Fed up science lead? Passionate about science? Want young people to develop skills, knowledge, agency and a voice in learning? Exciting pedagogical opportunity! Come and join us and help shape and develop education…

I am passionate about education. Working in & with schools has been my life. But for my daughter @bloglibby it was school itself that was the barrier to her learning, not her autism. She found the pressured, punitive state secondary culture so stress-inducing that she stopped

Think of it this way… Less & less people are ‘attending’ the pub. Instead of asking ‘why are people less keen to come(?!)’, pub owner hires someone to make punters come back without considering changing anything whatsoever about the pub shouting, ‘just come back’ at them.

“Putting up with something because you’ve been told to do it isn’t resilience. Sticking at something because you don't feel you have the right to stop isn't resilience. In the real world, that’s passivity.”

This is a fun reading lesson. Who wouldn’t want to ‘learn’ like this? In fact, why hire a professional teacher anyway when a robot could do it?

Can’t wait!

“The fact that we now frame everything in terms of mental health means that all of these problems are subsumed under this single heading without any granularity,” he said. “It places the problem within the child and that serves to obscure some of these wider, contextual factors.

When my son was four, we were sent a gift subscription to an educational software package called something like Education City. It has questions which children were meant to answer. I opened it up and showed it to him. He enjoyed numbers and patterns so I opened the maths

📚 Would you love to learn more about our school? 🏫 On 20 June from 12:30-5:30, we’ve organised an afternoon of talks, workshops & discussions about various aspects of our school ethos, as well as a guided tour, courtesy of our young people. #edutwitter ow.ly/qfTY50Rejah

I’ve been quiet on here for a while, working on getting Finding the Flex up and 🏃‍♀️If you’re a parent or professional interested in flexischooling, please take a look at our shiny new website findingtheflex.com subscribe, share & register your interest in upcoming webinars!

Our Professionals Day is TOMORROW! We’re so excited to open our doors to those wanting to come to learn about our school. There are still tickets available for educators, parents, academics, or members of the public who are interested in #education! thenewschool.org.uk/events/profess…

SAVE THE DATE! Our Summer Festival will take place on 6th of July from 12pm-4pm & will be a fun-filled afternoon of music, games, crafts, forest trails, cakes, BBQ, and a bar! There’ll also be a raffle with awesome prizes. Ticket info is coming very soon! #edutwitter

Ahead of the #generalelection, Big Change asked us what our hopes were for #education for the next government. What are your #bighopes for this government? #edutwitter

“14. An alternative reading would be: children are growing unhappier at school. Our education system is failing to meet the needs of SEN children. Poverty is rising. Academies can opt out of the safety net of support that local authorities used to provide…”

Great to share the work at The New School UK today and our alignment with Fair Education Alliance priorities for educational system change The Labour Party Bridget Phillipson

Cara Cinnamon Mission 44 Lucy Stephens The New School UK shared Priority #2 - an education system that prepares every young person to thrive in work and life, & what they are doing to give young people decision making power & teach them a range of skills to improve their engagement & sense of belonging

🔎Another 'ingredient' of democratic #education at our #school that @UCL focused on for their research was our 'Flexible System'. This examined our practices as being flexible, provisional, and open to revision. #edutwitter Full research paper 👉thenewschool.org.uk/documents

🎉 Thank you to everyone who came along last Saturday and made our 1st Summer Festival a success - despite the rain! ☔ 🎟️ There's a few raffle winners who we haven't tracked down just yet! If you see your name on the winners list, please contact Liz at [email protected]

🎉We had a LOT of fun on our final day at #school! Class 2 made 3D models 🏗️, used Skittles to play a game (where a few went mysteriously missing), ate delicious food, and even managed to squeeze in some numeracy. ☀️ We hope everyone is enjoying their summer holidays!