{"id":7516,"date":"2019-07-10T05:48:13","date_gmt":"2019-07-10T05:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=7516"},"modified":"2019-07-10T05:48:13","modified_gmt":"2019-07-10T05:48:13","slug":"character-and-climate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2019\/07\/10\/character-and-climate\/","title":{"rendered":"Character and Climate"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-content col-md-8 p-0 pl-md-4 pr-md-3 order-md-1\">\n<div class=\"col-12 px-4 mt-3 p-md-0\">\n<p>I see that Damian Hinds has launched a call for evidence as he names a character education panel to help schools develop \u201ccharacter and resilience\u201d among pupils. \u00a0The\u00a0education secretary thinks that trying new activities and learning from failure will boost children\u2019s character and resilience, which he says are key to social mobility.<\/p>\n<p>There is an 18-strong character expert panel which includes teachers, charity heads, former government advisors, academics and union leaders. \u00a0The panel will help draw up recommendations for <a href=\"https:\/\/schoolsweek.co.uk\/dfe-plans-new-gatsby-style-benchmarks-for-character-education\/\">Gatsby-style benchmarks<\/a> for character education to measure performance of schools.<\/p>\n<p>The five areas the DfE has identified for building character are sport, creativity, performing, volunteering and world of work. \u00a0All this follows the launch of the DfE\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/schoolsweek.co.uk\/pupils-should-ditch-gadgets-and-climb-trees-in-2019-damian-hinds-tells-schools\/\">activity passport<\/a>, which is a printable document which allows pupils to tick when they have completed 140 activities. \u00a0These include climbing trees, baking a cake and sewing.<\/p>\n<p>Very good Mr Hines.<\/p>\n<p>Now, how about setting up\u00a0an 18-strong Climate Change and Environment\u00a0expert panel\u00a0to help schools develop understanding and skills among pupils?<\/p>\n<p>What chance? \u00a0Fat chance, I hear you say, as this is not as important as character. \u00a0I shall ask my MP.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I see that Damian Hinds has launched a call for evidence as he names a character education panel to help schools develop \u201ccharacter and resilience\u201d among pupils. \u00a0The\u00a0education secretary thinks that trying new activities and learning from failure will boost...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}