Ensuring that students are ready to learn – Mark WhitField, Britus Education

Ensuring that students are ready to learn – Mark WhitField, Britus Education

Mark Whitfield, Education Director of Britus Education writes about the start of the new (normal) academic year.School leaders and their teams are busily working towards being ready for the new school year. Of course, this year, everything

is different. COVID-19 continues to exert a grip on our lives and this has an inevitable impact on schools and schooling. COVID-19 is likely to be here to stay until a vaccine is developed and administered worldwide, therefore schools will be planning to offer alternative approaches to learning for the whole of the 2020-21 school year.As schools prepare for a very different start to the year it is important that school leaders remember their moral purpose, vision and strategic direction.COVID-19 has created a ‘new normal', but the fundamentals of education remain the same –