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“Climate emergency” was proclaimed by the Oxford Dictionary as Word of the Year in 2019.
The winner of the annual word fest is judged to reflect “the ethos, mood, or preoccupations
of that particular year”. It will be interesting to see whether “eco anxiety”, the inevitable
concomitant of climate emergence, emerges as the word of 2020.
Over the last few months the world has witnessed something quite extraordinary.
As Brexit saturates the media, Tricia Kelleher celebrates the power of language learning and musical opportunity to do good, both within our schools and in the world beyond.
We must ensure our young learners understand how important it is to do the right thing, however hard that may be, explains Tricia Kelleher.
Tricia Kelleher examines the need for ethical leadership amongst young people in today's chaotic world.
What can we do to ensure that our young people are learners for the lives they will lead? Tricia Kelleher, Principal of the Stephen Perse Foundation, argues that it's time to think differently about education.
As we educate our young people for their future, we should be using digital tools to support their learning. Tricia Kelleher, Principal of the Stephen Perse Foundation, argues for tech books not textbooks.
Interestingly Amanda Spielman, Chief Inspector of Ofsted, is raising red flags around the narrowing of the curriculum in schools.
“O tempore o mores” as Jacob Rees-Mogg might say. Or “OMG what on earth is going on?” as other less rarified individuals would say.
Knowledge is power. Or is it? It is fair to say that there has been something of an onslaught on the integrity and indeed authority of knowledge in recent times.
As we all know too well, we live in a hard-nosed age where the school curriculum has to deliver value for money. Within the curriculum, creative subjects can offer low hanging fruit to hard-pressed headteachers looking to balance budgets and to deliver on the government's educational agenda. So the question has to be asked: What has creativity ever done for us?
I have been employed in education as a teacher and latterly a leader for over thirty years. Given my subject is History, I have always been cautious about engaging in politics. Far be it for me to expound my views to young people on how they should live their lives.
Principal, Tricia Kelleher, discusses the current teacher shortage and how critical our teachers are for our young people.
Tricia Kelleher, Principal of the Stephen Perse Foundation, discusses Brexit and how this could impact our younger generations.
Our Principal, Tricia Kelleher, discusses the new President-elect, Donald Trump, and what this means for our young people.
Tricia Kelleher, Principal of the Stephen Perse Foundation reflects on the recent HMC independent school leaders conference and the debate it raised.
So where have all the teachers gone? The existential crisis of our times in education is in teacher recruitment and retention. Just as we have lost the familiar conveyor belt of teacher recruits with university education faculties across the country face the challenge of funding PGCE places and Teach First grappling with high drop out rates, there also is the growing disaffection of serving teachers. A report from the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) has found that 23% of teachers are considering quitting teaching compared with just 17% last year with workload identified as a key reason for the increase. It is fair to say that Headteachers across the country are despairing about maintaining staffing levels in their schools.
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