Lauren Brown, Somerset College Preparatory educational psychologist, shares some practical advice with parents on how to support their children during lockdown. Life can be stressful. Who would have thought that in the space of a few months we would go from celebrating a new decade to full lockdo ...
Read moreI had the privilege of attending the Twenty-sixth International Conference on Learning: Learning to Make a Social Difference, hosted by Queen’s University Belfast, in July 2019. The conference aim gives expression to what underpins every teacher’s calling and one made even more clear as a res ...
Read moreOur children have been at home, since the school’s closure, from Monday the 23rd of March, a few days before the Lockdown began on the 26th of March. We are very fortunate to attend a school that was already using online learning and communication, via the Google suites, to a certain extent pri ...
Read moreThe year 2000 was my first year of teaching, I clearly remember the trauma that teachers experienced that year. The staff were expected for the first time to enter the marks and subject comments into a computer programme for the school reports. Physical mark books and the handwriting of comments bec ...
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