Express Article: Mr Fletcher Champions our Screen Free Approach

Mr Fletcher was interviewed about our screen free approach for an article published by The Daily Express. He is quoted explaining:

‘”A calmer environment where children can actually engage with words patiently and have normal interaction with teachers is cognitively vastly superior to the deluge of information that the digital makes possible.”‘

The article goes on to say:
‘[Heritage’s] strong values are borne out by impeccable results: last year, Heritage achieved the second-best GCSE results in Cambridge, a city overrun with high-performing schools. They also set the school apart from most, if not all, other schools in the UK, as well as from the general thrust of national educational policy, through which children are fed a staple diet of tech.’

‘As I glimpse into a classroom at Heritage full of engaged, focused pupils, not a screen in sight, I think back to Fletcher’s words: “What we actually want as educators is direct access to the thoughts of the child. I want to know it’s not being manipulated by AI or ChatGBT or cut and paste. So just write it in an exercise book. It’s so clean. It’s so pure. Why would we not want that?”’

You can read the full article here.