Mar 9, 2020 | At School (or not)
It’s International School Meals Day on 12th March. Whether its references to five, or even seven, a day, the amount of sugar in so-called healthy food, or the colour coded nutritional information on food we buy, there is definitely more of a focus on how healthy our...
Oct 7, 2019 | At School (or not), What's in the News?
October is Walk to School Month, a global event to celebrate the benefits of walking to school and identifying the barriers that get in the way of more children being able to walk to school. In this blog we look at the law around ‘walking to school’ and see if there...
Sep 11, 2019 | At School (or not), Reading my Rights
What’s your favourite Roald Dahl book? I love them all but one of my absolute favourites is Matilda. If you haven’t read it (or seen the film, or the musical), it’s about a brilliant little girl whose family treat her like dirt – and it’s only when she meets Miss...
Aug 20, 2019 | At School (or not), What's in the News?
School uniform in Wales has been in the news recently. The Welsh Government has introduced new guidance to schools planning on introducing a school uniform, or changing the school uniform that they already have. The guidance must be followed from 1 September 2019. So...
Jan 29, 2019 | At School (or not), What's in the News?
Whether you like it or hate it, if you go to school in Wales, you probably wear a school uniform. School uniform was in the news a lot last summer during the long heat wave. Some girls complained because their school uniform meant that they had to keep on wearing...
Jan 2, 2019 | At School (or not), What's in the News?
The Welsh Government has identified that there were 105,625 school pupils with ‘special educational needs’ in Wales in 2017/2018[1]. It has also researched how children and young people are being supported and has decided that the system that has been in place for 30...
