Extending school day to make up for lost learning ‘will only work if not seen as punishment’
Children have suffered “an epidemic” of demotivation while out of the classroom during coronavirus lockdowns, according to the chief inspector of schools in England, who warned against punishing children by shortening their holidays in an attempt to help them catch up.
Amanda Spielman, the head of Ofsted, told headteachers that a “significant minority of children just haven’t been engaging” when their teaching moved online as schools remained closed to most children from the start of the year.
