The Rationale for our Recovery Curriculum
Nobody quite knows how adversely affected our children will have been by the Coronavirus pandemic and the closure of schools. Using Barry and Matthew Carpenter’s Think Piece – A Recovery Curriculum: Loss and life for our children and schools post-pandemic – we have been thinking about what the curriculum needs to look like for our children returning to school in September 2020 to address both their academic and pastoral needs.
From the start of the autumn term, we will be implementing a recovery curriculum, which acknowledges that the losses experienced by our pupils will have had an impact on their mental health and well-being as well as their education.
To help us support our whole school community, our ‘Recovery Curriculum’ will focus on four key areas: