Home The Charters The Project Team About 'A Children's Charter ...' Why get involved in 'A Children's Charter ...' How to get involved in 'A Children's Charter ...' Submission Criteria Feedback and Comment Links Contact Us Log in to: Pilot Schools	Welcome to 'A Children’s Charter for Learning' This site, devised jointly by the National College for School Leadership and NET, is dedicated to discovering what you and your children think about learning in primary schools, and what might make learning even better. We hope to encourage schools to create their own ‘Children’s Charter for Learning’ and to share many of these on this dedicated website. We hope that developing and sharing the charters will form part of a wider process of engaging children and developing even more powerful and innovative approaches to learning in primary schools. For more information on 'A Children's Charter for Learning', please click here. For more information about how to get involved with 'A Children's Charter for Learning', please click here. Click to read and comment about this aspect of education Building and Sustaining a Shared Ethos. It is difficult to define ethos and trying to describe what it looks like in a school context reminds me of trying to catch a kite in the wind. One can see it and know it's there and even touch it occasionally but capturing it and holding on to it is a far more difficult task. Similarly with ethos one senses it first and visitors to a school instinctively know and understand what a school is like by how it 'feels'. However there is a danger that over time we can take for granted that the ethos in our school is both shared and operating in the way we think it is. Miss Anita Jaswal & Dr Susan Robinson Cherry Orchard Primary School and Children's Centre Click here to read this article. One thing is clear about 21st century learning. The teacher is no longer the main gatekeeper of knowledge - the internet and young people's experiences beyond the school are also hugely influential. That makes school all the more precious and the role of the teacher as coach is key. Dialogue among pupils and pupils and teachers is an essential part of successful learning. Anything that encourages the pupil's voice, as this project does, deserves all the support we can give it. Professor Sir Tim Brighouse

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