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How we plan for the return to the classrooms, playgrounds and corridors of schools. 

Curated by a restorative collective of researchers, practitioners and school leaders in the light of COVID-19

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RESTORE

A restorative lens for education

This model highlights seven key areas which, alongside learning, are where we need to stimulate thinking and make decisions in order to collectively move forward into a healthy ‘new normal’. The areas intersect, interconnect and affect each other, as we all do. RESTORE is a lens through which staff, children and parents can look at the strategy and plans that are needed for everyone’s well- being in a fast changing environment and for a safe and healthy return to school. 

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Recognition

Of what’s happened and that our experiences during lockdown have all been different, life changing for many and significant for us all. How do we encourage everyone to share their story of the pandemic so far?

Empathy

For the mix of emotions that we have in response to events, whether staff, students, families, community and the in the wider world. How can we respond with empathy and compassion and self-care?

Safety

Re-establishing a sense of emotional and physical safety for this new normal so that students are able to learn and all are able to thrive. Safeguarding those who may have not been safe whilst they’ve been away from school.

Trauma

Is now a collective as well as an individual experience, how does the school community process this? And how do we support people who have experienced very particular traumas during lockdown or as a result of facing an even more uncertain future?

Opportunity

To change what needs to be changed, to do things differently and to learn from this experience that we can question seemingly fixed aspects of our world.

Relationships

Are key, as they always have been. How do we reconnect, and (re-)build inclusive, responsive communities at all levels in school?

Engagement

In our own lives and the issues that affect us, our teaching, learning, community and to allow staff and students a sense of agency in their own lives. 

A new normal for the future rebuilding of our schools

Circle time resources for RESTORE