Children arrive at school with stories about who they want to become. The question is whether the classroom makes space for those stories or replaces them with ours.
Year 5 children at Beckfoot Allerton Primary Bradford become authors for a day. What they produced and what they said about it.
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We ask children to live by rules we would refuse for ourselves and then we are surprised when they stop believing their own perspective has any standing.