How Teachers Can Tackle School Anxiety
School anxiety, unfortunately, has always been there with students for various reasons however, recent reports show that it has soared due to Covid. Anxiety is prolific in schools Young people’s mental health has gotten worse since the start of the pandemic, in 2020, according to Mind, one-in-six young people had a diagnosable mental health problem. […]
University Places Confirmed with Lower Grades
According to the admissions service, UCAS has said that nearly half (49%) of eighteen-year olds in England, Northern Ireland and Wales, who sat their A-Levels, were accepted at University with lower grades than those that were advertised on their websites. Of those accepted, sixty per cent of applicants from the fifth most disadvantaged backgrounds were […]
Ofsted Introducing Mental Health Inspections
Under the new inspection regime this year, Ofsted will be checking whether schools have certain systems in place to identify children whose mental health is evident or deteriorating. Ofsted will be utilising these checks in collaboration with local services to see how they respond to children with ill mental health as well as how timely […]
Bullying in Schools – What Can We Do?
The number one concern with young people in modern times is bullying of some sort with most of it starting at school; research released this week have stated that 60% of secondary pupils have experienced bullying. This comes as Rikama Education, who reported earlier this week, on Jeremy Wright who warns of social media operators […]
SATs – Branding Children as Failures
As all primary educators will know, SATs results were released yesterday, and most news outlets are headlining the positives of two-thirds of Year 6’s achieved their expected grades. Is two-thirds an acceptable amount? Thirty-three per cent failed to meet their grades, these year 6 children will have to be told that they have failed just […]
