Head, All Hallows Prep
For many parents, debates about screen time and devices have become a regular part of family life, and knowing how much is too much has become somewhat of a moving target. “Whether it’s three-year-olds throwing tantrums when the iPad is taken away, seven-year-olds watching YouTube all night, nine-year-olds demanding their own phones, 11-year-olds nagging to […]
Read MoreI have been wanting to find the time to blog since I began my doctoral training to become an Educational Psychologist some 9 years or so ago. Partly, my thinking behind blogging was a somewhat selfish reflective process, but I also wanted to think-out-loud about the findings of contemporary research, to ‘trouble’, question and contemplate some […]
Read MoreAs you may have seen in the press, Ofsted this week announced their new proposed framework, which is the first change since 2015, and will no doubt filter through to independent school inspections in time. It covers a range of areas, such as behaviour, leaning, teaching and curriculum. Encouragingly, not only did the framework for the first time attend to self-belief, resilience, character […]
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‘How we can help our children manage their stress levels and what parents can do to support them.’ A core tenet of the All Hallows ethos is that the importance of fostering qualities that are hard to measure in our young people (such as emotional well-being, confidence, resilience and a positive growth mind-set) should not be an aside […]
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Dr Trevor Richards 