Michael Pettavel

Michael Pettavel is a successfully retired nursery school head teacher, Children’s Centre leader and occasional consultant.

Michael Pettavel: 'The headlong run into full academisation of the school system feels like we have been here before (and we have). Schools that look the same, sound the same and deliver the same'
Opinion

Michael Pettavel: 'A Wetherspoons model for school improvement'

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Michael Pettavel: 'So many of the services around the earliest years of life are being dismantled or neglected and I am so sick of the assumption that people don’t matter when they are very young'
Opinion

Early intervention is vital

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Michael Pettavel: 'Am I alone in beginning to find the word "disability" outdated?'
Opinion

The power of words

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Michael Pettavel: 'I now judge from the walk and not the talk'
Opinion

Smoke and mirrors

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Michael Pettavel
Opinion

Give yourself some time

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Michael Pettavel: 'There is an element here that sees early intervention as "charity" rather than investment'
Opinion

Early years isn’t a charity

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Michael Pettavel: 'There is no national strategy to mitigate the impact of the pandemic on the youngest'
Opinion

Catching up to what?

Michael Pettavel
Michael Pettavel
Opinion

We must not be divided

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Michael Pettavel
Opinion

Model behaviour in trying times

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Michael Pettavel: 'Currently no-one appears accountable, as ministers and their "advisors" squabble'
Opinion

Shifting the blame

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Michael Pettavel: 'There is an opportunity to transform education and it is slipping through our fingers'
Opinion

Different values

Policy & Politics
Michael Pettavel, head teacher, Brougham Street Childcare and Nursery School, Skipton.
Opinion

Stay true to yourself

Michael Pettavel
Michael Pettavel
Opinion

The coronavirus crisis gives us a time for reflection

Management
Michael Pettavel
Opinion

Who is your hero?

Michael Pettavel
Michael Pettavel
Opinion

Feeling overwhelmed by data

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Michael Pettavel
Opinion

New year’s resolutions

Policy & Politics