Opinion

Where now after Covid’s ‘Great Pause’?

Curriculum
Why do we educate? What is important? The Covid experience must change how we think about education. In a new book, chair of the Headteachers’ Roundtable Stephen Tierney, says that clarity about the content that needs to be taught must be matched by clarity about the reason for teaching it...


With schools open for all pupils again, the norms and rhythm of the school day, term and year are slowly being re-established. It is a slightly different normal, both in daily practicalities but also in the mindset of many teachers and school leaders.

The Covid-19 pandemic created our generation’s “Great Pause”. The past six months formed a liminal space – a disorientating time between the world that has been and the world that may be.

These are times that are so profoundly discontinuous that we often rethink the fundamental way we are living our lives. We are likely to have re-entered the world changed by our experiences.

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