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
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
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
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
This week I’m turning my thoughts to something personal to our school. Months of work was spent by our team preparing us for the relaunch of Elea High Online School this September and, as the first day of the new school year grew closer, anxiousness mixed with excited anticipation, was Read more
How VR lessons increased chemistry test scores by 68 % in a leading Estonian grammar school Virtual reality, or VR, is taking off in education with an increasing number of schools adopting the technology. Katrin Soika, a Chemistry teacher at Gustav Adolf Grammar School in Tallinn, Estonia tested VR experiences Read more
One argument against teaching, and learning, online is that practical subjects can’t be taught practically. Generally, that’s true but there are ways in which the teaching of practical subjects become more practical, teaching them online. Science is a great example. So many science teachers shy away from practical experiments, instead, Read more