Schools need a 'no excuses' culture, says Gibb
Urging other schools to follow suit, Gibb singled out the Michaela Free School in North London, which has recently introduced a ‘family-style lunch’ where children share and serve food to one another, which provides them with the ‘character traits needed to succeed in life’.
Speaking at the Freedom and Autonomy for Schools National Association autumn conference in London, he said: “At root, it is not autonomy that really matters, it is what autonomy allows you to do differently that counts. The real genius of school autonomy is that when one thousand flowers bloom, we are able, given time, to see which flowers bloom brightest.
“Current research points in the same direction – it is the traditional, academic, disciplined, ‘no excuses’ approach to education that will truly allow pupils to fulfil their potential.”
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