The headteacher of a large secondary school called me: “Imagine, yesterday we had a major conference on school development in our neighbourhood. Lots of decision-makers from the city and the schools had come. A few pupils from my school were there too. When asked what they would like to see in our schools for the future, the answer was that they didn’t have the smallest idea what the A-levels were actually for. They said it was all about gaining an overview of life as a whole; they thought we needed one lesson a week dedicated to life skills. And then they told me about navi4life. They thought it would be absolutely brilliant, but that two hours would have been far too short. They said it came across as very engaging and had been really beneficial for them. That’s exactly the sort of thing they’d like to see as a weekly lesson. Apart from me, nobody knew your name or ‘navi4life’, so I was able to tell them all about it with great enthusiasm. Just imagine: navi4life was brought up in this highly official setting by our young people, whom you have touched and inspired so deeply. And to top it all off: today, two Year 6 kids (!!) came up to me and said, ‘It’s really unfair that we can’t do navi4life yet. That’s got to change. We’d like to find our way in life, too.’ What a gift at the end of this school year.
