Can a Four Day School Week Improve Education Outcomes? A recent BBC News has reported on proposals from the Scottish Government to explore a more flexible four day school week. As discussions around education reform continue, this places a focus on teacher wellbeing. For online schools like Elea High, flexibility Read more
Provision for students with learning differences has been in the news regularly over the last few months and, following on from last week’s news on the review of the national curriculum, SEND has hit the headlines today in the UK as local authorities struggle to manage growing numbers of young Read more
The government has published its long-awaited review of the National Curriculum in England, the first such large scale review in a decade, a decade in which we have seen a huge transformation in society and technology, necessitating a rethink of the National Curriculum what it offers each learner and how Read more
The wellbeing of young people is regularly in the news and has been since the Covid-19 pandemic which put a huge strain on the mental health of young people, generally accredited to the isolation and lack of social interaction of the time. Education was affected with some schools going fully Read more
Parents exploring schools may notice that Key Stage 4 qualifications are labelled differently. The most common options are GCSEs and IGCSEs. What Does the ‘I’ in IGCSE Mean? The “I” in IGCSE stands for International. IGCSEs were originally designed for students studying outside the UK. Over time, many leading schools Read more
The number of online schools across the globe has grown exponentially over the last few years due to a number of factors. These include advances in technology and the increasing realisation that many traditional schools haven’t evolved sufficiently to meet the needs of today’s world. Yours may be one of Read more
Not too long ago, online schools were seen as being at the fringe of education, necessary only when traditional schools can’t operate such as in the Covid pandemic or for digital nomads whose lifestyle means they can’t attend a traditional school on a full time basis. Aided by huge advances Read more
Dispelling the Myth There’s a persistent myth about online school students: that they miss out on “real” friendships. That somehow, learning from home means growing up alone. At Elea High, we knew this wasn’t true — but we also knew that seeing it could change minds. A Global Gathering Recently, Read more
What’s it like being a student at Elea High Online School? In this blog article we ask a Year 9 student to tell us about a typical day studying online: What time do you start your school day? For me, it’s 9am as I’m located in Spain which is an Read more
Many of us struggle to remain focused when there are distractions around us. Try reading a text in a noisy environment and recall what you’ve read afterwards. Chances are that the amount of information you’ve managed to cover has been drastically reduced, studies show that in an environment with visual Read more