At the risk of sounding like a DM reader, what is wrong with calling a school a school?

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..rather than "a place for learning".

Here. Life really is too short to be quibbling over the use of the word school. FFS.

It's a load of old bollocks

I thank you.

lol at the bit about not using the word school as it was oart of their new learning approach - sums up educational polcy very well lol

"a place for learning" doesn't sound right. Thinking in the mornings - "time to get up for the place for learning"

put your shoes on quick or you'll be late for the place for learning.

The place for learning bus is coming soon

do you have the place for learning uniform in stock?

One day the place for learning inspectors will turn up

I would worry about any headteacher who spends too long thinking about these sorts of things.

Get all the local students (uni/college age) to turn up one morning. they would soon change it back

epitomises all that is wrong with education today imo - too wishy washy

everything 'studies' and very little studying

Hmmm. Presumably because she wanted to dump all the negastive baggage that goes with the word "school"

But "place for learning" sounds like an extraordinarily limited vision of what a school can be tbh.

negative even

I will be looking for a place for learning run dress before too long.

Agree that the Head/Management Team and Governors really really must have too much time on their hands.

That's what the Head said apparently, LittleBella. But it doesn't change anything and she'll just get a load of negative baggage hung onto 'place for learning' instead. She seems to have ignored all the positive baggage that goes with school.

I certainly wouldn't want a child of mine to go to a place for learning or school which can't even admit what it is. It's a totally ridiculous action on the school's part. They'll be talking about Euphemism breaks next

Even the name is made-up - there is no Watercliffe Meadow. It's a conflation of three schools' names - Shirecliffe, Watermead and somewhere-or-other Meadow.

They're a rum lot up 'ere in Sheffield.

There is a whole new push onto calling kids working "learning" all to do with the "lifelong" learning idea.

You do get used to it after a while and it does have a much more positive feel.

Also schools are under a lot of pressure from the government (who else?) to be open all hours and to serve the community more, rather than lying dormant all summer.

For a lot of illiterate adults the whole word school portays the place as one of bad memories. The idea of a place for learning I presume is tied into all that.

Yes, but you can still learn at a school - and then college or university! Schools can be fantastic, positive places as well - they are in the main. She might do better ensuring that her staff, the children and the parents work towards ensuring that the school is one of these places rather than coming up with this load of baloney.

If I were a parent there I would have great fun calling it a school at every possible opportunity