Playing outdoors and exploring our natural surroundings used to be the foundation of childhood memories, but somewhere along the way it’s become lost in the stress of everyday life, government cutbacks and the culture of fear; fear of strangers and fear of accidents....

This post originally appeared: https://www.qaeducation.co.uk/blog/Challenge-Academy Greg Brookes-Clayton is the Educational Director at Challenge Academy – a Community Interest Company (CIC) set up and directed by experienced professionals and leaders from education...

You couldn't fail to have noticed the amount of news coverage today's school curriculum is receiving, most of it bad, focusing on the amount of stress it's putting on young children. It seems the government is hell-bent on pushing kids to the max in an attempt to...

It’s happened to all of us. We’re sat at our desk and then the general hum of printers and slurping of tea is interrupted when the manager announces, “we’re all going on a team building day!” Yay… It can strike fear into staff like not other news. The thought of...