Change to UK education

[Ejmorgan]

I am wondering why we dont use this time to remodel the UK education system . We know children learn better interactively , open classrooms have been used by many private schools . We are told the risk of passing covid is smaller outside and the long term weather forecast is good why is no one suggesting outside classrooms surely parents will be happier , children will learn better and be healthier , teachers will hopefully be less stressed . We have a chance to change here is no one really going to take it ?

Don't see what you are envisaging so think yabu. It's going to be a nightmare initially when schools reopen though.

I wish

Most schools around here (SE commuter belt) simply don't have the outdoor space for this.

It rains something like 190 days a year where I live, I can't see outdoor classrooms ever happening in my part of the UK.

Our school have already said they will be doing as many classes as possible outside. And lunch time.

It's not really as simple as that in practice though is it? What about the days it is too cold/wet to learn outside? How will children use technology outside/in bright sunlight? Who is going to be carting all the furniture and resources in, out, in, out. You'll need something to stop their papers flying away in the breeze. The disruption when a bird inevitably shits on someone. It really isn't just a case of, oh look, it's sunny, let's go outside and draw a flower like it was allowed to be in the 70s.

I'm hoping our school does at least a little bit more of this, yes.

My DDs school is next to a major train line. I think the noise would get distracting very fast....

Another local school, 16 classes, has a playground smaller than a football pitch. Their hall isn't big enough for all the children either...

YADNBU education is still fossilised one term times from the 19th century when DC that to sit in a classroom. I always felt that Tony Blair with a a whopping great majority could have been radical. Ditto now Boris. Look at other countries and learn from them and make education fit for the 21 century.
Even rationalising term times would be better than nothing. Start school year in January with even fixed blocks of time and holidays without the 'long summer holiday' that is nowadays pointless.

There’s no such thing as a “UK education system”.

Education is a devolved matter, so I’m not sure how you’d plan on implementing a different strategy on education systems that are already very different?

open classrooms have

Open classrooms are terrible for kids with any issues focusing - i.e. quite a few of them.