Independent School Of The Year Awards Finalist: Stamford School
Stamford School?s Learning for Life curriculum which teaches pupils relationships education including how to conduct themselves online, earned it a well-deserved finalist place in our awards campaign. Kendal Mills, Deputy Head of pastoral tells us more about it
?The recent allegations of historic peer-on-peer sexual harassment and abuse by students at thousands of schools, colleges and universities rocked the world of education and affected many of us in ways that were quite unforeseen. The accounts written on the ?Everyone?s Invited? website were harrowing and made for difficult and painful reading.
?As schools, we needed to respond, and we needed to do so without any hint of defensiveness or by appearing to underplay or even deny the problem. ?The media-coined term ?rape culture?, initially applied to ?private? schools and tended to be linked to words like ?elitism? and ?entitlement?. That was unhelpful and somewhat misleading because it immediately generated a caricature of the issue. The thousands of allegations made by current and former students were many and varied ? offensive and degrading language used by male students towards female students, body shaming, indecent postings online, non-consensual sexual touching and, in extreme cases, rape ? so, as schools, our response to that complex range of transgressions needed to be sure-footed enough to be able to address them all in a variety of ways.
?Although it only became statutory from September 2020, Stamford School...
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