A Recovery Curriculum: Loss and Life for our children and schools post pandemic.
[Originally posted on Evidence for Learning 23 April 2020] “When will they actually go back to school?” This is the cry from many parents, as we write and there [...]
Get Me Off This Carousel! Or, What’s Killing Children’s Creativity in Schools, by Mine Conkbayir
While I was running on the treadmill at the gym, I happened upon a news report concerning the lack of creativity in the workplace. The subtitles read: How can we [...]
Achieving Outstanding Practice in the EYFS: Mine Conkbayir on ensuring no child is left behind
The inspiration behind this post is the various guises of my seminar, concerning how to achieve Outstanding practice in the EYFS. Although the premise appears quite clear, I do all [...]
Professor Barry Carpenter on foetal alcohol spectrum disorder
TES talks to ... Professor Barry Carpenter: Despite years of campaigning, foetal alcohol spectrum disorder is still unknown to many teachers, the academic and former headteacher tells Jessica Powell. To [...]
Butterfly Print featured in PrintWeek!
Butterfly Print's total focus on the education sector has been picked up by the printing trade magazine PrintWeek as an example of a good way for print companies to build [...]
Do we need school playgrounds or fields?
From an original blog post by CLARE ERASMUS, Director of Mental Health & Wellbeing & Head of Creative Media at staffrm.io - reproduced by kind permission. When the DFE say, Not all [...]
Mental Health Journals for schools – Optimus Education Review
At Butterfly we are always delighted when education professionals love the work we do, and this review from Optimus Education of our Mental Health Journals for Schools is one that we're [...]
Mental Health Journals for schools – Counselling Directory Review
During the course of last year some of our Mental Health Journals were reviewed by the Counselling Directory website, and they had lots of good things to say! So, with [...]