wendybaverstock

  • Falling rolls: when standing still carries a risk

    Running a school isn’t what it used to be. Falling pupil numbers are forcing difficult conversations about staffing, budgets and the future. At the same time, identified SEND is rising. Fewer children does not mean fewer needs. My career has taken me through schools and charities, including organisations…

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  • What is this child trying to tell us?

    What could we change? When behaviour becomes difficult, our attention usually goes straight to the child. How do we get them to listen, join in or stop doing that? We’re often slower to ask what we could change ourselves. Yet our own response can be one of the…

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