This month, in her regular column for Education Today, Dr Asha Patel, CEO of education not-for-profit Innovating Minds, offers some pointers for schools on making all pupils feel welcome at school.
The beginning of the school year should represent a fresh start, but children often come with preconceptions - 'I'm not good at maths' 'I don't like that teacher' and staff often have a picture of some of the children they will be teaching this year. Perhaps they taught the child last year or have heard reports of bad behaviour or seen comments from a previous school.
We all want children to be happy and healthy both mentally and physically, to have routines, stable relationships in and out of school, to make a keep friends and to have a sense of optimism...
Read the full article in the September issue of the Education Today magazine (page 19): https://content.yudu.com/web/69r/0Aiy7k/ETSept2019/html/index.html?page=18&origin=reader