I arrived back in the UK from Tokyo last night. Now that I’m home I can turn my attention to properly starting to develop our curriculum. We intend to write a basic Hunar Ghar curriculum over the next 9 months, ready to put it into action next August. There’s going to be a huge amount of work to do, but I think it will really help the current teachers and the training of new teachers. Hunar Ghar evolves rapidly so we’re going to have to figure out how it can remain flexible and progressive which providing a good base from which to lead projects and learning.

As much as helping teachers it will also help with how external people perceive us. The very idea that children might be able to learn in a sensible and well structured way without a curriculum dictating what to learn when is to some inconceivable; those that have a very superficial understanding of education and learning. Unfortunately many people involved in education have such an outlook so although our curriculum will be fundamentally different in the role it plays in children’s learning processes, those that view it superficially will see it superficially and so feel more comfortable with what we do. I turn that will make them more confident in Hunar Ghar (even if it is only based on appearances rather than quality), but at least that means more people might start to listen to what we are doing with the creating of a learning environment, and ultimately more children might have a more enjoyable, less repressive and damaging school life.