The Knowledge Library.
Editorial writing on learning, parenting, wellbeing, and the modern realities of raising school-age children — published weekly by the educators at Chrysalis School.
How children actually learn — and what that means for school.
A century of cognitive science has settled enough of the debate to draw conclusions. Most schools haven't caught up.
Read the essay →Recent writing.
6 articlesSleep, screens, and the teenage brain.
What the AAP, the WHO, and a generation of sleep researchers actually agree on — and what changes when you act on it.
The real reason your child won't talk about school.
It isn't secrecy. It isn't a phase. The literature on adolescent disclosure has a clearer answer.
Why we teach maths the way we do.
Three pedagogical principles, three subject heads, one short answer to a question parents ask weekly.
Your child's first phone.
The decision matrix every parent eventually faces — without the moral panic and without the techno-optimism.
The case for boredom.
Why the absence of stimulation is one of the most under-rated educational inputs in modern childhood.
What to say when they fail a test.
A short scripted-conversation framework, drawn from twenty years of work with families.
Ongoing series.
How children learn.
Six essays drawing on cognitive science and classroom experience. From how memory forms to why repetition matters.
Pastoral notes.
Conversations the school has with parents, week in and week out — written up so they reach further than one family at a time.
The modern classroom.
What changes — and what doesn't — when teaching moves online. Lessons from four years of building this in practice.
From the archive.
Earlier writing — searchable, dated, kept open.
One essay. One note. Every Friday.
A five-minute read from the school's editorial team. No advertising, no upsell — just one piece of writing worth your weekend.