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Are the new GCSE exams causing mental health problems?

Jun 24, 2018 | Category: Featured
Sitting an exam is, for most people, an inherently stressful situation. People have been sitting exams since at least the Sui dynasty in China (581-618 CE) when prospective entrants to the Imperial ci...
#stress #Exams #Kathryn Ecclestone #therapeutic education #tests #Kelly McGonigal

Of cabbages, round tables and kings

Nov 03, 2012 | Category: leadership
Back in the day King Arthur had a problem. Bickering barons made a great deal of fuss  about who was the biggest cheese. When they sat down together for a friendly chat things soon came to head becaus...
#Ofsted #Exams #Headteachers' Roundtable #King Arthur

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