Our lockdown learning journey has come to an end with our final episode of our podcast this week, we hope that you’ve enjoyed listening as much as we enjoyed making it.  We’d like to also say thank you to all our wonderful guests that have given us their time and shared their thoughts with us over the last few months, we couldn’t have done it without you.   For our final episode we wanted to look to the future.  What will our education systems look like in a post COVID-19 world?  As we all rush to get back to ‘normal’ as lockdown measures are eased, many people are question ..read more

Our lockdown learning journey has come to an end with our final episode of our podcast this week, we hope that you’ve enjoyed listening as much as we enjoyed making it.  We’d like to also say thank you to all our wonderful guests that have given us their time and shared their thoughts with us over the last few months, we couldn’t have done it without you.   For our final episode we wanted to look to the future.  What will our education systems look like in a post COVID-19 world?  As we all rush to get back to ‘normal’ as lockdown measures are eased, many people are question ..read more

As alternative educational settings we often hear from parents of children struggling with the mainstream approach to learning. Children who need to move more than the school day allows for, find it hard to focus on work they aren’t interested in or simply learn in different ways than their peers.  It’s not surprising that parents look elsewhere for something that suits their child.  But yet we can’t help but think that something must be deeply wrong for so many children to find it so hard to thrive in our school system.  And that’s the topic of our podcast this week as we talk ..read more

As alternative educational settings we often hear from parents of children struggling with the mainstream approach to learning. Children who need to move more than the school day allows for, find it hard to focus on work they aren’t interested in or simply learn in different ways than their peers.  It’s not surprising that parents look elsewhere for something that suits their child.  But yet we can’t help but think that something must be deeply wrong for so many children to find it so hard to thrive in our school system.  And that’s the topic of our podcast this week as we talk ..read more

“Play is really the work of children, play is how they understand the world and how they become adults. The importance of play cannot be overstated” remarked Larry Welshon in last week’s episode about Democratic Education.     In Lockdown our children have had more time to get bored and figure out how to spend their time than ever before, and hopefully they’ve spent a large part of it playing.  This week we dive deeper into the topic of play with Henry Readhead, Deputy Head at Summerhill School, the oldest children’s democracy in the world.  Children at Summerhill are ..read more

“Play is really the work of children, play is how they understand the world and how they become adults. The importance of play cannot be overstated” remarked Larry Welshon in last week’s episode about Democratic Education.     In Lockdown our children have had more time to get bored and figure out how to spend their time than ever before, and hopefully they’ve spent a large part of it playing.  This week we dive deeper into the topic of play with Henry Readhead, Deputy Head at Summerhill School, the oldest children’s democracy in the world.  Children at Summerhill are ..read more

If, like Alex O’Neill who we spoke to in our last episode, lockdown has caused to you to pause and reconsider what learning looks like for your children you might be wondering what your options are.  We’ve talked a lot about home education in this series - as that’s what we’ve all kind of been thrown into - but home education is just one alternative available.     This week we delve deeper into one of the alternative school models available - Democratic Education - we asked founders of the schools hosting this podcast Kezia Cantwell Wright and Larry Welshon about their jour ..read more

If, like Alex O’Neill who we spoke to in our last episode, lockdown has caused to you to pause and reconsider what learning looks like for your children you might be wondering what your options are.  We’ve talked a lot about home education in this series - as that’s what we’ve all kind of been thrown into - but home education is just one alternative available.     This week we delve deeper into one of the alternative school models available - Democratic Education - we asked founders of the schools hosting this podcast Kezia Cantwell Wright and Larry Welshon about their jour ..read more

Our lockdown learning journey has come to an end with our final episode of our podcast this week, we hope that you’ve enjoyed listening as much as we enjoyed making it.  We’d like to also say thank you to all our wonderful guests that have given us their time and shared their thoughts with us over the last few months, we couldn’t have done it without you.   For our final episode we wanted to look to the future.  What will our education systems look like in a post COVID-19 world?  As we all rush to get back to ‘normal’ as lockdown measures are eased, many people are question ..read more

Our lockdown learning journey has come to an end with our final episode of our podcast this week, we hope that you’ve enjoyed listening as much as we enjoyed making it.  We’d like to also say thank you to all our wonderful guests that have given us their time and shared their thoughts with us over the last few months, we couldn’t have done it without you.   For our final episode we wanted to look to the future.  What will our education systems look like in a post COVID-19 world?  As we all rush to get back to ‘normal’ as lockdown measures are eased, many people are question ..read more