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Misleading and unfair article overshadows wellbeing debate

Wellington School’s recent misrepresentation in the national press overshadowed an important discussion on wellbeing in our schools, says Dr Bernard Trafford

My colleague Henry Price, head of Wellington School in Somerset, has every reason to feel offended. He blogged a fortnight ago about his school’s new Department of Sport and Wellbeing, which intelligently brings nutrition, mindfulness and leadership together with the traditional elements of sport (read the blog via http://bit.ly/2fxQlhz).

Wellington School still plays old-fashioned team games. As Mr Price wrote: “Girls and boys still thrive in a team environment and I would not wish to see an element of competition removed from school sport, as long as it is tempered by sportsmanship and a sense of perspective.” So Mr Price was as surprised as his students and parents to then see a headline in the Sunday Times: Zumba puts team games on the bench at top school (http://bit.ly/2feT8Ox).

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