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.
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.
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.