Thoughts and Evidence

When the Classroom Becomes a Stage for Adult Anxieties

When the Classroom Becomes a Stage for Adult Anxietiesby: KatePublished on: 02/01/2026

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.

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When the Classroom Becomes a Stage for Adult Anxieties

What Happened When Year 5 Became Authors for a Day at Beckfoot Allerton Primary

What Happened When Year 5 Became Authors for a Day at Beckfoot Allerton Primaryby: KatePublished on: 06/06/2025

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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What Happened When Year 5 Became Authors for a Day at Beckfoot Allerton Primary

Whose Child Is This?

Whose Child Is This?by: KatePublished on: 07/02/2025

Every child has a story and the first person who should be trusted to know it is the parent who has been there from the first word. The tension between families and professional systems.

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Whose Child Is This?

Education Is the Most Powerful Anti-Poverty Tool We Have

Education Is the Most Powerful Anti-Poverty Tool We Haveby: KatePublished on: 10/01/2025

For children growing up in poverty, the education system is either the place where their story gets its first real audience or the place where it learns to stay silent.

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Education Is the Most Powerful Anti-Poverty Tool We Have