For a whole range of reasons, mainstream education does not suit every young person. In 2023, there were over 25,000 young people are enrolled in alternative provision in the UK - a number that continues to rise.
In this post, I bring you a fascinating conversation with John Tomsett and Mary Myatt – two people who have done a great deal to shape thinking about curriculum and school leadership in recent years.
Recently, John and Mary have written a remarkable series of books on curriculum called ‘Huh’, named after the Egyptian god of endlessness, creativity and regeneration. This spirit runs through everything they write; the Huh books are deeply rooted in the real world of schools, but they also look to what could be.
This conversation centres around their recent collaboration AP Huh: Curriculum conversations with Alternative Provision leaders. For this book, Mary and John interviewed pupils, parents, teachers, headteachers, CEOs, educational consultants and lecturers . They then edited the transcriptions of those interviews to provide an ambitious, thoughtful, nuanced and challenging vision of what the best possible provision looks like for children who find that mainstream schooling is not for them.
This was a really enjoyable and eye-opening conversation – and I hope you get as much out of it as I did.
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