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This was the analogy ( #AnalogyQueen) that I made to the parents in our school back in lockdown 1. It still stands.
1. So a 7yo breaks their leg badly. Full on cast and a number of weeks in hospital. No one at this point is concerned about>>
1. So a 7yo breaks their leg badly. Full on cast and a number of weeks in hospital. No one at this point is concerned about>>
2. Whether the child will be able to run in the sports day race at the end of the academic year. Or even the next academic year. Their not even thinking about whether they might want to run a marathon when they are an adult. Because everyone is concerned about >>
3. What I’m calling “foundations healing”. If the healing is not done right, at the right time, without pushing the body to do too much too soon, then it will all have been for nothing & the child may actually never walk again. Catastrophic.
Instead, everything is taken slowly >>
Instead, everything is taken slowly >>
4. Slowly. And at the body’s own pace. I expect (I’m not a medic) that some children heal quicker than others. After the cast is off there will be physio. No one is expecting this child to run the sports day race yet. No one is saying “they usually run that race at this >>
5. Time of year we must make their body heal quicker and put in all sorts of interventions and fancy pants stuff costing money to make sure they catch up and run the race on sports day in July”
No one says that. Everyone knows that it has to be done at that child’s pace >>
No one says that. Everyone knows that it has to be done at that child’s pace >>
6. It is all done at the right time for the child, knowing that if the healing is done properly, it will set that child up to go on walk, run, hope skip jump their way through sports day, through their PE learning, and all the way to running a marathon in years to come. >>
7. Because if you get it right at the start, and only do what is necessary to do, then the rest will come.
I hate the term “catch up”. But learning has been lost. Just as a 7yo with a broken leg has lost physical development.
Rushing to catch up is not the answer.>>
I hate the term “catch up”. But learning has been lost. Just as a 7yo with a broken leg has lost physical development.
Rushing to catch up is not the answer.>>
8. Imo it is re-planning the curriculum for each cohort of children to make up the lost learning over the remaining years they have at school. So by the time they leave at the end of secondary, they are fit enough to run whatever marathon they want.
Marathon.
Not sprint.
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Marathon.
Not sprint.
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