Many headteachers, teachers and parents ask me how it is that I can have a herd of water buffalo roaming around my school grounds and regularly take children shooting with shotguns.
Why am I “allowed” to build a Bronze Age roundhouse with my pupils and teach them beekeeping, among many other unconventional pursuits at my state-funded, mainstream junior school. They almost always ask me, “so how do you get away with it?”
There is a big misconception, within the teaching profession, the media and the general public, that the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is against the idea of children being exposed to danger and that schools are prevented from giving their children experiences which involve risk.
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