Children should be given more opportunities to take risks, the chairman of the Boarding School Association is to say. The Telegraph reports that Christian Heinrich will warn at the Boarding School Association’s annual conference that private schools are at risk of becoming "exam factories" and should instead encourage children's curiosity.
A head teacher found hanged at a school in Worcester in November was concerned her school would be downgraded at its next Ofsted inspection, the BBC reports. An inquest into Helen Mann’s death heard she was "very concerned" the school she had worked at for six months would lose its outstanding rating. The hearing continues.
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