As a member of the Fair Education Alliance and participants in their wellbeing strand, we wanted to share the recently released Fair Education Manifesto with our community, and our Founder Lucy Stephens added calls to action, reflecting on the main points of the manifesto.
Read MoreHearing the excited voices of my own children who attend The New School and other children on the first day of the new school year, it filled my heart with joy. This is what learning should be about and this is what I believe the experience of education should be.
Read MoreOur Founder, Lucy Stephens, looks forward to the year ahead and reflects on the journey so far.
Read MoreAt The New School, we offer a range of therapeutic support including therapeutic play and counselling. Learn more about what play therapy is and how it is used.
Read MoreLearn about two new exciting teaching roles at The New School and find out how you can apply.
Read MoreWatch this webinar with our Founder/Director Lucy Stephens, where she discusses how we’re ‘doing education differently’ at our school.
Read MoreWatch our free webinar discussing the link between young people’s mental health and behaviour, hearing from experts in the field and young people and their parents.
Read MoreHas covid cancelled your Christmas party? Xmas Party Heroes has been created to help businesses donate their unused Christmas party budget to their favourite charities, and we’re one of the chosen charities on the platform!
Read MoreJehn, one of our fantastic chefs, explains here how things work in the kitchen here at The New School. We do things a little differently, of course, and with nutrition playing such a huge part of mental and physical wellbeing, it’s very important to us.
Read MoreThe New School has joined together with the Rio Ferdinand Foundation for the Hope 2020 campaign, which is inspired by the life of Damilola Taylor who was murdered in South London. The 20th anniversary campaign is dedicated to hearing from young people about their aspirational stories of ambition and hope for themselves and the future.
Read MoreHelp us raise funds for The New School through our crowdfunding programme, to help us future proof the school as well as creating awareness of education reform to the wider public.
Read MoreLucy Stephens, Founder of The New School, will feature in the September edition of ‘Open House’ by peer-led network Losing Control. The session will focus on the topic of co-production and Lucy will discuss The New School’s democratic approach. Session runs from 3pm-5pm on 29th September 2020.
Read MoreChildren in the UK have the lowest levels of life satisfaction across Europe, with “a particularly British fear of failure” partly to blame, according to a major report into childhood happiness.
Read MoreWe’ve been working hard to get The New School ready for the young people who will attend in September. Here’s a glimpse at what we’ve been up to.
Read MoreTo not think it’s necessary to include BAME history in the UK curriculum because ‘a broad curriculum can include the voices and experiences of BAME people’ highlights the government’s lack of understanding.
Read MoreIf youth services weren’t in a state of emergency before (debatable) they are now. This is incredibly short-sighted, and concerning for young people.
Read MoreIt’s understandable that parents and teachers are reticent about going back to school. Other countries have done it differently and are no worse off. There is lot of independent science that we don’t hear about, that paints a different picture.
Read MoreThe more questions we ask of schools in terms of what they are doing for pastoral support, social and emotional skills development and giving our children a voice in their learning, the more schools will have to change.
Read MoreAs Teacher Tom writes in Medium Magazine, this is the gold standard of a play-based curriculum: creative, cooperative play. Reflecting on his own teaching experience he says, “As a teacher in a school that engages in no direct instruction, but rather bases its curriculum on the evidence of how children learn best, which is through their own self-directed play,”
Read Moren a recent Guardian report, Paul Ramchandani, Lego professor of play at the University of Cambridge, explains how coronavirus school closures are a chance to follow your child’s lead rather than formal study. Here at The New School UK, we couldn’t agree more.
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