Nursery World - Enabling Environments: National Teaching Schools

Developing the whole child by encouraging independence and focusing on well-being, via learning that is interesting and relevant, has been praised at an NTS in Bedfordshire. By Marianne Sargent

National Teaching School (NTS) the Bedfordshire Nursery Schools Federation, lead school in the Peter Pan Teaching School Alliance, is praised by Ofsted for ‘the exceptional care taken by adults to make learning interesting and ensure it is matched to all children’s exact needs.’

Executive head teacher and National Leader of Education (NLE) Isabel Davis says this focus on developing the whole child by supporting well-being and fostering high levels of involvement and engagement is central to the ethos of the Peter Pan Teaching School Alliance.

‘Encouraging children to make their own choices and make their own mistakes is how they learn, it’s how we all learn,’ she says. ‘We learn by doing, we learn by reflecting and evaluating and modifying our behaviour. In anything we do, that’s how we become better people.’

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