Our children need proper mental health provision
‘School days are the best days of your life’, the saying goes. But growing evidence is showing us that childhood is increasingly fraught with stress and anxiety. The pressure to…
The Brighton school fighting tooth and nail against becoming an academy
Image credit: Alex Sallons At a much-loved school, in the heart of a tight-knit community, in a northern suburb of Brighton, parents are furious and their children are upset. Teaching…
Air pollution and the school run: Why we need to go further than Walk to School Week
Image credit: Creative Commons, Des Blenkinsopp Every weekday morning in term-time, a massive queue of cars crawls along outside my daughter’s school in Brighton. The entire line grinds to a…