Tag: covid-19 schools

Episode 2: The Recovery Curriculum Part 2: Origins of the 5 losses and levers

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In conversation, Barry and Matthew reflected on the origins of the Think Piece, and Matthew, who is Principal at Baxter College, a mainstream secondary school, shares his thinking behind the 5 levers and how he and his team are applying them to plan the recovery process at Baxter College.

Reflecting on each of the 5 levers, Mat talks about the importance of ‘nimble leadership’ and being responsive to the individual needs of the whole school community in co-constructing the post pandemic curriculum, ensuring transparency throughout the journey.

Full post – please click here or the below link

https://www.evidenceforlearning.net/2020/05/28/learningshared-episode2-recoverycurriculum-2/

 

Searching for a SMILE: 5 Ways to Well-being

Forest Oak School in Solihull have developed SMILE, and ethos based approach to prompting positive Mental Health and emotional well being in children and young people. It is built on the NHS 5 ways to well being.

The approach is currently nearing the completion of a two year research evaluation with 10 other schools  being led by Professor Barry Carpenter (Oxford Brookes University), Jo Egerton (Schools Research Consultant) in conjunction with Isabel Gerrard, (Well Being Lead, Forest Oak School), and Amanda Mordey, (Headteacher)

In the current climate we need to be mindful of the support our CYP will need as the gradually return to school . This approach is the perfect example of the Recovery Curriculum in action, and will be the subject of a future podcast with Amanda Mordey, OBE, Executive Headteacher , Forest Oak and Merstone School, Solihull, which will be posted on www.recoverycurriculum.org

https://www.forest-oak.solihull.sch.uk/topic/smile

 

Podcast: Conversations around a Recovery Curriculum (LearningShared)

To explore and develop what a Recovery Curriculum might look like in the context of a school’s existing curricula, we’ll be hosting a series of conversations with school leaders, practitioners and researchers over the coming weeks. We’ll be releasing and sharing these discussions as episodes on the new LearningShared podcast.

The first of these episodes is available below.

Episode 1 includes a lecture with visual slides from Professor Carpenter, that delves deeper into some of the ideas, concepts and research behind the Recovery Curriculum Think Piece and begins to think about questions that leaders and practitioners can ask of each other as they prepare to lead the recovery.

Below is an audio-only podcast feed for LearningShared with Episode 1, as well as the video version with presentation slides to accompany the lecture.

Please feel free to share with colleagues and on social media.

LearningShared: Episode 1 – A Recovery Curriculum Part 1 (Loss and Life for our children and schools post pandemic) [AUDIO ONLY]

Listen to the podcast on the Evidence for Learning website via this link, or listen via the embedded audio below.