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Understanding the impact of COVID19 on Private Schools with former Headmaster Leon Hady.

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One in 10 private schools may have to close as a result of financial pressures heaped on them by coronavirus. Some schools have already told parents they will be increasing their fees to recoup extra costs, although fees will be frozen for next year.

Independent schools have faced a cacophony of woes this year. Almost all are offering discounts while they are shut during the pandemic – some by as much as 50pc – yet they are still having to pay staff wages in full and cover all their running costs.

Eton College, for example, has reduced its fees by a third for this summer term despite having ongoing operating costs of about £66m a year.

Seven private schools have closed as a result of the crisis, according to the Independent Schools Association, which represents more than 500 institutions. Hundreds more are likely to follow suit and 10pc of schools could be wiped out, said Leon Hady, an ex-headmaster who now runs Guide Education, a teacher training business.

He added: “The true impact will be revealed when schools start reopening. Lots of parents will be too scared to send their children back or will have decided to continue homeschooling them instead. My children are all at fee-paying schools and we definitely won’t be sending them back this term.”

Some parents will be unable to send children back even if they wish to, as certain schools will not be resuming bus services because of concerns about sanitising them, Mr Hady said.

Private schools will also face a blow to pupil numbers, as many overseas parents may be unwilling or unable to send their children back to Britain because of travel restrictions. Melanie Sanderson of The Good Schools Guide, which rates schools, said she was particularly worried about small, undersubscribed independents outside London and the South East.

There are about 2,400 private schools across the country, meaning more than 200 would disappear if Mr Hady’s prediction came true. Parents who withdraw their children will still have to pay autumn term fees, as they must generally give a full term’s notice before withdrawing a pupil.

Although some schools are raising fees, Ms Sanderson said she did not imagine this would be widespread: “Fee inflation has been so huge over the past decade, if schools go any further they will price themselves out of the market – particularly as plenty of parents will be worse off now.”

She said it was a very real possibility that many parents would decide to homeschool their children. “You save on fees, uniforms, school buses and trips. We pay around £1,000 a term for our children to take the bus to school.”

Private schools were facing difficulties even before the crisis, owing to increases to the cost of teachers’ pensions, which have caused some smaller institutions to close.

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3 steps and 9 tips to getting the best out of time with your child, by Guide Founder Leon Hady.

Congratulations, you’ve won an extended period at home with your own children and have the added responsibility of guiding them through learning as well whatever mountain of duties you have to manage.

I’ve seen a lot written about homeschooling over the last few weeks, and it’s evident not many people writing articles have ever home-schooled their children or been involved in the home schooling of other people’s children. Having home-taught my own children at times between international moves, dozens of students out of school for my tuition center, and been a teacher and headteacher with 12 years experience, I can honestly share from experience, what has worked for me and for others. Hope it helps

This follows in 3 sections - Approach / Delivering / Expectation

Approach

This isn’t school, or even homeschooling. ‘Homeschooling’ is now a widely misused term for what millions of parents are currently trying to emulate, when in reality homeschooling is a choice to remove a child from an educational establishment, fully prepared, with obligation and legal responsibility to adhere to government standards.

Millions of us did not elect this and did not prepare for it. It was thrust upon us as a result of a worldwide pandemic and as such we have to consider it something new and a bridge to the extended work the brilliant schools are now offering.

You are simply guiding learning or connecting to learning opportunities. You are not responsible to create schemes of work or long winded action plans, don’t over prescribe to you or your child, you’re heading in a direction, not creating a user manual on how to follow everything you are doing.

Decide goals for what you’re doing - you are ultimately filling a unit of time, to the best of your ability. How can you be the best conduit for learning with the time you have allowed? Can you sit with your child throughout, can you set up access to online materials, do you need to leave often? Pick a realistic way of working with your child and stick to it.

Pick the times - Compact it all into two hours? Or have 6 half hour sessions through the day? Pick the method that will serve your skill set and other responsibilities best and of course what your child will like. Many schools are offering resources and recommended times, but they are aware you are not free for much of the day, so access will be day round, consider where is fairest on yourself and your child. And why do I say 2 hours? School lessons involve lots of student engagement and over explanation - you’ll have videos / text books or MP3s doing the information delivery, you need to help with understanding and activity completion - so your sessions will be far less in duration than school lessons.

Help before there is a problem - ah, seems here I’m only asking you to be Cassandra, but really it’s about being available. Multi-tasking is one of the most shot-down notions in history, second only to doctors being paid to recommend cigarettes in the 50s. Be present for your child in the times you allocate as well as aware and supportive. If you can’t do that for set periods of the day, it’s understandable - you may not have practiced it - but this means, phones down, tv off and eye contact. Your child needs that from you.

Watch your tone - simple as this may sound, it’s important to recognise the way you normally speak to your children and if there is negativity in it, be mindful. Years of parents of evenings and home tuition have shown me that a lot of parents speak to their children in never ending refrains that have lost meaning. Explain that your both in a new situation and that you’re only there to assist - you’re not in mummy or daddy mode.

Delivering

This bit is simple yet hard to master:

A) Take your child through something, then ask for understanding and a recap, then check understanding of all the parts of a task: ‘how many words will you write?’ ‘how long have you got left?’ ‘what’s the outcome? - if they don’t seem to understand, EXPLAIN IN A DIFFERENT WAY, repeat until they understand, or, let them explain to you and do the best you can with what you both understand. YOU ARE NOT BEING MARKED! Do you think children walk out of school understanding everything said in a classroom? (*keels over with laughter)

B) Focus on the task, complete task / lesson - review by looking to pick three positives. Ask the child where they would like to improve work and if it is specific to this task, or general in their work as a whole . End session with clear time to start the next session. This gives certainty, kids need routine and certainty (as do adults)

C) Do not do more than 30 Minutes in a block: 5-10 minutes to understand, the majority of the rest of the time to complete and feedback (Even if you feel your child can do 2 hours straight - segment after 30 minutes) Check for understanding and give feedback, feedback is everything - help them email work to school, or review with other parent, whatsapp friend or elder sibling - make sure the work they do is noted… if you did a report at work and no one gave a crap, how would you feel? It’s the same for a child with school work.

DO NOT overcook praise, avoid all personal praise, and focus on action based reward - ‘very clear’, ‘well explained’ ‘good demonstration’ - supportive more than gushing - if you say something is ‘amazing’ on day 2 first lesson, what will you do or say week 5?

Whatever the subject, focus on skills they are using as much as subject material. Getting through a ton of work badly is worse than honing a skill and understanding the skill they are using in a very small section. Having taught thousands of students in classrooms and hundreds more in private tuition, I can tell you that students who know when to implement a different skill will fare better overall.

As a very wide baseline for this (and one you can connect to) consider the following skills: Communicating (talking), Recalling (remembering), Observing (looking/reading), Researching (finding out) and Implementing (using) - breaking things down into the general skills so even though they may not complete or fully understand a piece of work, they are aware of the skills they are using and take confidence in that.

Expectation

Remember you are holding the fort, assisting alongside school and in unbelievably unfavorable conditions: your house! Students have routines in your homes that will take some realigning - do not magically expect them to pick up learning routines. If you feel guilty, you’re barking up the wrong tree, it’s natural but false.

Progress not perfection - if 3 of your sessions go well and 2 don’t fine - tomorrow is another day, if one week feels easier than the next, so be it, fine - if everything feels like a struggle - reach out, tell people, and simplify what you’re doing. Reading and creating with anything of their hobbies and interests that you're part of is great too, then see if you can divert with a link: drawing a favourite film character, writing a prequel idea for a favorite film, making jokes, taking pictures, whatever you have the space to do.

Finally, and most importantly, and this pretty much removes all the importance of the above points: your relationship with them comes first - no matter what you do, this should be a time to draw closer to your child as they'll need you - if all the above goes out the window, so be it. Be there for them. With my first child, I was writing TV shows from home so spent years her, with my second child I was headteacher from when she was born to when she was 3 and saw her for barely 2 hours a week.

This time with them now, for all that's going on - I utterly cherish and our relationship comes first. I hope yours does too.

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Ready for Shadow tag and silhouette schools? Read insights from experienced educator Leon Hady.

When the government decides to phase-in the return to school, we should be just as accepting of reduced expectations for our institutions in the first months as we are with ‘home learning’. Stability is paramount.

For all the talk of ‘new normals’ and ‘resilience’, it’s criminal to expect schools to run at reduced capacity with a range of new measures, yet have the same expectation of performance reviews, class observations and strictly measured outcomes.

Watching Denmark go back to school, with mandates or 2-meter spacing, reduced numbers, games of shadow tag, and whatever else, almost a silhouette of their former selves, it’s clear to see the emotional support needed for all school community members will likely even be greater than was needed during the lockdown.

So much great work has been done by educators in the last month, but the true impact-range of school staff will be keenly felt when schools return post-lockdown.

People see now just how central schools and all their staff are to the lives of children, parents and the well-being of communities as a whole - It’s going to be a tough time, and we can make it easier by being by taking needless pressure off our amazing educators

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Keeping Young People Engaged with Learning

While there are dozens of support methods to help students engage with what’s around them, nothing is better than inviting students to mentally engage first, to understand the reasons WHY they are doing any given thing, especially learning.

As a former headteacher and lifelong teacher, I offer the following tips to get your children set to focus before any activity you want to engage them in.

Tip 1) With your child, write three ‘why’ statements to see the benefits of the learning period. Help them create positive statements to frame all the learning that will follow.

A) I’m doing _____ because ______

B) I’m going to invest in myself by _______ in order to _______

C) If I want _______ then _________ will help me towards that.

It takes only a few minutes but can be used again with variants, but the mental and spoken act of remembering this can help a student to engage. Use words that assume and require ‘effort’ : engage, invest, undertake, develop.

Tip 2) Whatever the subject, ask your child to think of the skills involved in what they are doing, not just the subject. 5 key ones that cover a great deal are: Communicating (talking), Recalling (remembering), Observing (looking/reading), Researching (finding out) and Implementing (use) - breaking things down into the general skills so even though they may not complete or fully understand a piece of work, they are aware of the skills they are using and take confidence in that.

Tip 3) Link anything they are doing to the real world. Don’t just use general items like ‘maths will help you be an accountant’, find immediate and practical items too - things in your life, your daily routine and make sure you discuss them theoretically even if you can’t implement them now. Examples could be: measurements and materials for a new shed or loft conversion, or a letter to the council about an increase in tax.

Tip 4) Key and rarely considered: Don’t fear boredom! If you want someone to engage with something, the natural opposite should be less attractive. I.e. let them get bored! If screens rule supreme in the house, and there is little to no space for boredom, you’re allowing an environment for engagement to be diminished. It’s ok for students to be bored - feel free to tell them that ‘their boredom is their responsibility’.

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Parents - Guiding Learning at Home, is not the Same as Homeschooling

Parents, please take the pressure off of yourself to home-school - ‘homeschooling’ is now a widely misused term for what millions of parents are currently trying to emulate, when in reality homeschooling is a choice to remove a child from an educational establishment, fully prepared, with obligation and legal responsibility to adhere to government standards.

Do not assume, with no choice in the matter, you are suddenly expected to be a teacher, in the same way, you wouldn’t suddenly assume you could drive if I showed you a car for the first time, or could be a basket player upon seeing a basketball.

Just like the notion of ‘social distancing’ has morphed in circles to a more appropriate ‘physical distancing’, (we need to be social no matter how far from one another) we’d do better to consider ourselves offering ‘learning guidance’ than homeschooling, we parents are currently facilitators, conduits and occasional presenters - connecting our children to things that will engage, occupy and better them in small, small steps, wherever form they come in.

Over the last week, I’ve spoken to many parent friends who are already feeling the strain to fill their days with school-esque timetables - the goal really should be to set a rhythm in the day, for families to be around each other for so long in enclosed places - something that we may need to continue for months.

It may help to first consider your daily routine, where you can involve your children in all household activities, use them as discussion points and add smatterings of the formal education activity when you can be fully present for it.

With older children, in addition, you can guide, set tasks and direct towards e-learning (asking your children to explain items they are studying to you is an excellent way for them to show understanding and gather thoughts on a subject - so let them guide you too!)

Above all, this extra time is a chance for us all to improve and cement relationships and new degrees of activity with our children, whatever they may be.

Advice from teachers is invaluable, by all means, seek it, and of course many will consider being a teaching assistant or teacher a possible new career choice when this cloud lifts, but for now please, know that we are in it for the long term and we need to pace ourselves and our expectations, the coming weeks will reveal much and we need to be calm assured as we get there.

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