Our goal is to create a world-class school system that ensures every child is taught a broad and ambitious knowledge-rich curriculum by highly skilled teachers, so they can achieve their potential. We need to continue to develop the evidence base around effective teaching practice and curriculum design, with teaching increasingly viewed as an applied science (akin to medicine) where evidence-based approaches are widely utilised, and skilled teachers draw upon expert support and professional communities. We also need to build our understanding of how best to replicate the success of high performing schools, and how school trusts can improve the effectiveness and efficiency of their schools, including through management of the school estate. A key part of this is building evidence on the most successful school approaches to improving attendance.
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This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:
Many students in the UK benefit from curriculum-based environmental education (EE) (A-level and GCSE biology and geography fieldwork) which is provided by organisations such as the Field Studies Council (FSC). However, t...
Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: University of Exeter
The project explores the impact of curriculum-based environmental education on the wellbeing of young people, aligning with the question's focus on children's access to nature from an educational and wellbeing perspective.
'Engagement with the natural environment has wide ranging physical, emotional, social and cognitive benefits for all age groups' (The People and Nature Survey for England 2020). Children who spend time outdoors learn to...
Funded by: ISCF
Lead research organisation: RULEO & PARTNERS LIMITED
The project focuses on creating an extended reality product to encourage children to connect with nature, partially addressing the question's concern for children's access to nature from an educational and wellbeing perspective.
Global interest in children's wellbeing is growing and is now central to major international policy documents regarding children's life quality (e.g. UN Sustainable Development Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing). Researc...
Funded by: AHRC
Lead research organisation: University College London
The project supports children's wellbeing through participatory art in nature, partially addressing the question's focus on children's access to nature from an educational and wellbeing perspective.