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If only we had enough faith ... enough faith to not steal ninety-nine, enough faith to agree with children that the hundred is there. Enough faith to be on their side for once, to think like the child that you once were and to see the world through their eyes. Isn’t that what we want our children to do: marvel, dream, laugh, sing, love, think?

It all seems so glaringly obvious. I don’t think anyone in their right mind would deny that those things aren’t the cornerstones of what children should experience. But how many days within the school system does this truly happen for children? The block to all this is, of course, the adult world. The world that we alluded to at the beginning of this chapter: measuring, analysing, rapid progress, closing the gap, data outcomes, performance. None of these things matter to children – they are too in the moment, too joyfully oblivious. So, it is the adult world that is drowning out their voice, telling children that the hundred is not there. It is the adult world that denies the marvel, the dream, the love, the thought.

Now we as adults can’t just walk away from the adult world and its pressures, and arguably we have a duty to work within the system that we have. We can’t just pretend that it doesn’t exist – after all, your performance management relies on the outcomes of the adult world and without these, dear reader, you would most likely find yourself out of work. So there needs to be a way that both worlds can meet, and happily there is. Your passport to this approach relies on you to feel deep down that children have a voice and to be open to hearing it.