Dear Nadhim Zahawi, children need to express grief about Covid as well as to ‘catch up’ | Michael Rosen
The arts, squeezed from the curriculum, could offer a chance for pupils to explore their feelings and worries
I had a conversation with a teacher the other day. She asked me what she and other teachers could do to help children with the trauma of the pandemic. This pulled me up sharp. She explained that the children in her class had been deeply affected by what has happened over the last 18 months. She thought some of them were troubled, at times distressed, and that this was showing up in the way they were behaving towards each other.
She wasn’t talking about whether the children were “behind” at school. This was about that very unfashionable idea “the whole child” – not the tested and measured child, evaluated purely on the basis of their performance in tasks set by people in offices far away.
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