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What will your summer be like?
What if... we made outdoor classrooms the new norm?
As head teachers in the UK wrestle with the whether, when and how of reopening their schools, they are having to drastically rethink the school day and the learning environment. In this article, written by Cath Prisk for the London National Park City Schools Network, we consider how getting outdoors could offer some potential solutions.
Stay-at-home nature
Three lessons from the first week of homeschooling
"By 3:45 in the afternoon of the first day, I was shattered. Bone weary shattered and unable to move from the couch for an hour while I re-collected myself. The good news is every day has gotten better, and now that we’re all in a UK-wide crash course in homeschooling, I thought I’d share my hard won knowledge with you - only because I’m a few days ahead of most families in this journey."
Read about one Hackney-based single parent's journey navigating home-schooling for the first time...
Five great ways to lay down a memory...
Has the sudden spring weather made you long for that lazy summer holiday? Or think about the three - yes three! - bank holiday weekends coming up?
Over the last ten years I've taken my brother's kids away at least a couple of times, often with some other friends and their kids, so we can all get away from the noise and enjoy that sensation of cold dew on flip-flopped feet...
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