Park School is part of a National Research Project looking at Human Scale issues in schools. There are about 10 schools involved. Some are primary and some are rather large secondary schools. The objective of the research is to form a national footprint for people to really understand what Human Scale means with the idea [...]

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We had an official opening of our classroom with cake, tea and champagne to celebrate. All the companies who gave the prizes of the new furniture, Smartboard and the classroom came to be thanked and to cut the red ribbon. We all watched a short film made by parents about the making of the room which clearly demonstrated [...]

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Many of you realize that Park School is a Human Scale School and that we have been trying for many years to help people understand what this means.  An organization called Human Scale Education was founded about 25 years ago and has been looking at the same issue.  It has spent some time looking at [...]

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The Children’s Minister, Sarah Teather, says “Government can only do so much” to support children’s wellbeing, but a less stress-creating education policy would go a long way. We wanted our daughter to go to a small school to avoid the early pressures of tests and targets.  Park School, Dartington, is part of the human-scale education [...]

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A recent article by Oliver James (Guardian 11 November) refers to the evidence that smaller classes really do create better educated children. However the issue of smaller class sizes, for example in the mid teens as opposed to the usual 30 pupils per class limit, has not been part of any government’s agenda for a [...]

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Richard Hickman worked for over twenty years as a class teacher and Advisory Teacher in the state sector. He was then Teacher in Charge of Park School, Dartington, Devon on two occasions between 1997 and 2008 and remains a member of the school’s Council of Management. This article describes and evaluates some key issues in [...]

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A note from our Chair of Council Most of you will have noticed the Tagore Festival which happened at Dartington Hall. Tagore was India’s greatest writer and artist, as well as being a thinker, educator and spiritual leader. He was a close friend of Leonard Elmhirst, the founder of the Dartington Hall Trust, and the [...]

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