🎉We had a LOT of fun on our final day at #school! Class 2 made 3D models 🏗️, used Skittles to play a game (where a few went mysteriously missing), ate delicious food, and even managed to squeeze in some numeracy. ☀️ We hope everyone is enjoying their summer holidays!

🎉 Thank you to everyone who came along last Saturday and made our 1st Summer Festival a success - despite the rain! ☔ 🎟️ There's a few raffle winners who we haven't tracked down just yet! If you see your name on the winners list, please contact Liz at office@thenewschool.org.uk

🔎Another 'ingredient' of democratic #education at our #school that @UCL focused on for their research was our 'Flexible System'. This examined our practices as being flexible, provisional, and open to revision. #edutwitter Full research paper 👉 https://t.co/dzs6AteiXc

@cara_cinnamon @mission44 Lucy Stephens @new_school_uk shared Priority #2 - an education system that prepares every young person to thrive in work and life, & what they are doing to give young people decision making power & teach them a range of skills to improve their engagement & sense of belonging

Great to share the work at @new_school_uk today and our alignment with @_TheFEA priorities for educational system change @UKLabour @bphillipsonMP

“14. An alternative reading would be: children are growing unhappier at school. Our education system is failing to meet the needs of SEN children. Poverty is rising. Academies can opt out of the safety net of support that local authorities used to provide…”

Ahead of the #generalelection, @bigchange_ asked us what our hopes were for #education for the next government. What are your #bighopes for this government? #edutwitter

SAVE THE DATE! Our Summer Festival will take place on 6th of July from 12pm-4pm & will be a fun-filled afternoon of music, games, crafts, forest trails, cakes, BBQ, and a bar! There’ll also be a raffle with awesome prizes. Ticket info is coming very soon! #edutwitter

Our Professionals Day is TOMORROW! We’re so excited to open our doors to those wanting to come to learn about our school. There are still tickets available for educators, parents, academics, or members of the public who are interested in #education!

I’ve been quiet on here for a while, working on getting Finding the Flex up and 🏃‍♀️If you’re a parent or professional interested in flexischooling, please take a look at our shiny new website https://t.co/Rexr5hOPc2 subscribe, share & register your interest in upcoming webinars!

📚 Would you love to learn more about our school? 🏫 On 20 June from 12:30-5:30, we’ve organised an afternoon of talks, workshops & discussions about various aspects of our school ethos, as well as a guided tour, courtesy of our young people. #edutwitter https://t.co/EXkd6j64GT

When my son was four, we were sent a gift subscription to an educational software package called something like Education City. It has questions which children were meant to answer. I opened it up and showed it to him. He enjoyed numbers and patterns so I opened the maths

“The fact that we now frame everything in terms of mental health means that all of these problems are subsumed under this single heading without any granularity,” he said. “It places the problem within the child and that serves to obscure some of these wider, contextual factors.

Can’t wait!

This is a fun reading lesson. Who wouldn’t want to ‘learn’ like this? In fact, why hire a professional teacher anyway when a robot could do it?

“Putting up with something because you’ve been told to do it isn’t resilience. Sticking at something because you don't feel you have the right to stop isn't resilience. In the real world, that’s passivity.”

I am passionate about education. Working in & with schools has been my life. But for my daughter @bloglibby it was school itself that was the barrier to her learning, not her autism. She found the pressured, punitive state secondary culture so stress-inducing that she stopped

Fed up science lead? Passionate about science? Want young people to develop skills, knowledge, agency and a voice in learning? Exciting pedagogical opportunity! Come and join us and help shape and develop education…

📿 This week Class 2 learned about multiplication and practiced skip counting by creating jewellery. This exercise helped Class 2 learn maths as well as improving their mobility skills - threading the numbers onto the elastic wasn't as easy as you'd think! #edutwitter #maths

🍎 Each week in their #forestschool session, Class 1 open up their outdoor snack shop, cutting fruit to sell and then serving their customers who pay using dried beans, helping develop their maths and mobility skills. 🌰 They also created bird feeders after seeing a robin!