We've identified a few articles that look at how it will be for pupils when they return to school; the potential trauma and anxiety it may cause as well as the impact on their learning. These resources are mainly based around Barry Carpenter's Recovery Curriuclum - we hope you'll find them useful.
As you are preparing for the return to school - phased at first, then eventually all pupils, it is unlikely that things will just go back to normal as though nothing has happened - you are likely to have:
... and the list goes on. When the children return to school it might help to have a Recovery Curriculum in place - click on the titles below for the information.
Thinking Matters will be providing 'Back to School' online training for school staff - using a range of metacognitive tools to develop pupils' independent learning and self-confidence.
By Charlotte Wheeler, Motivation Matters and Thinking Matters Consultant It has always been the primary responsibility of schools to keep children safe. But now more than ever, schools have become these wondrous havens of normality for our young people..
By Paul Tyack, Thinking Matters Consultant Nine years after the highly acclaimed and ground-breaking Making Thinking Visible (2011), ‘The Power of Making Thinking Visible’ was finally published this summer. Ron Ritchhart, Senior Research Associate of Harvard Project Zero and Mark Church, Consultant at Project Zero, expand on the work of the original book by providing tools, principles and practices based on research and work with teachers and students around the world. .