Challenges of childrens participation A Case Study of active citizenship in Cadle Primary School
ask. In relation to citizenship education, is teaching about or for citizenship is different in
Wales?
Mr Richards: Yes, yes there is, (long pause) and emm, it is a challenge, it is a challenge
because (long pause), the previous education minister Andrews was very much driven by
standards, data and numbers emm and there is still a pressure on schools to produce every
improving data emm its emm (long pause) emm its an area of great concern for schools, for
us as headteachers, there is expectations within schools that standards should this (increase,
go up), and its impossible emm children are not robots, they don`t learn like that, emm they
develop as individuals, like with Sten, there are situations in children`s life when they are
going through turmoil and maybe something is happening that affects their learning so they
are learning like this (up and down)… children are expected to do this in terms of data.
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