Lockdown Stories
Lockdown stories gives a unique insight into the varied experiences our children had since March ’20
BIG EDUCATION
Education needs to change
Join the movement to make it happen.
Latest news
School21 Headteacher Appointment
We are delighted to announce the appointment of Dr Nicola Mason as the new headteacher of School 21.
Last pupil places available at School 360
Our new primary school opens September ’21, and we still have some pupil places available!
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Developing leaders who are passionate about providing a more holistic education for young people.
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OUR MISSION
We are part of a growing movement of teachers, parents, students and employers who know there is something wrong with our education system. And want to help put it right. In place of a narrow exam-focused system we want something that is more expansive. In place of massive inequalities, we want an education system that nurtures the potential of every child from every background.
Our mission is to help more schools and more changemakers develop that Big Education – an education of head, heart and hand. So that we learn the lessons of lockdown and shape a better future for all our children.
HEAD
HEART
HAND
HOW WE ARE DISTINCTIVE
We believe…
In making a difference to the entire system not just our own schools
In prizing distinctiveness and centres of excellence over uniformity
In challenging not accepting the way education is done – in becoming the first place to go for rigorous innovation and new thinking
Good exam results and a good Ofsted grade are a minimum necessity not goals of education
The divide between progressives and traditionalists gets in the way of true innovation that has an impact: dogma of any kind is unhelpful
Education is an intellectual as well as practical undertaking and needs a rich blend of both
Connected
Rethinking Assessment
How de-linking scales across domains would end the experience of one-big-competition
Amelia Peterson LSE & London Interdisciplinary School
2021-04-02
Recently, Tom Cosgrove wrote for Rethinking Assessment about whether we need grades to learn. He makes a good case that we don’t. When we look at education from a societal or policy perspective, however, we might still...
Learning from Lockdown
Why we need to learn the power of ‘and'
Liz Robinson Co-Director, Big Education
2021-03-31
I wasn’t expecting to write a part 2 to this blog. But it has been a funny couple of weeks. This blog is about boldness, why it matters, and what is stopping it from happening in education. If we are to build the......
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