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Monthly Archive: February 2016

23rd February

Blog Stories

‘It takes a whole village to educate a child’

Early on in my career at UFA (and that’s a while back now!) I remember our Founder, Sir Tim Brighouse, reminding us of an African proverb ‘It takes a whole village to educate a child’. This week with the latest Social Mobility Index (31/1/16) now available I have reflected back on that proverb when looking

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17th February

Blog Stories

Dig Deep for Victory

  I’ve been privileged to work with two similarly vulnerable cohorts of young people over the last 3 months – one group through the Virtual School in Derbyshire and another at the CE Academy in Wellingborough who serve young people permanently excluded from mainstream schooling. Both groups have trained to become Peer Tutors for their

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11th February

Events

Seeing is Believing!

We’re really excited to be working with the Peterborough Learning Partnership as part of our ‘Seeing is Believing’ project – where we’ll be promoting our Peer Tutor programme. On February 24th and 25th we’ll be working with Woodston Primary School and Nene Valley Primary School to train 20 Year 4 and 5 students as Peer

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10th February

Articles

Reciprocity, Robert Starratt and creating a legacy…

We have been thinking quite a lot about “reciprocity” recently here at UFA. We measure the impact of our work with young people based on Guy Claxton’s 4 R’s model of Resilience, Resourcefulness, Reflection and Reciprocity and this has got me thinking this month about how we help young people to value reciprocity – how

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