It’s not been a simple few years, has it?
Having swept across the globe many times over, the pandemic appears to be rearing its head once again. Alongside growing domestic and international uncertainty, it continues to dominate headlines, and not least in the education press as schools struggle through ongoing disruption to attendance and exams and focus their efforts on mitigating learning loss.
Amid the noise, it can be difficult to see the smaller, positive changes that have occurred in that time. Two and a half years is a long time, and lots has changed. Not all of these changes are because of the pandemic, and even among those there is plenty to celebrate. So for my last article of the school year, I wanted to end on a high and focus on the silver linings that may have gone unnoticed in this tumultuous period.
