I’ve been touring schools for my son recently, so in some cases I have seen this shift from childhood to mini-adulthood take place before my very eyes. You exit a reception classroom alive with movement and chatter to enter one for the year above only to see a marked shift in atmosphere and environment. The children look so small to be sitting at their tables with a teacher standing at the front of the room delivering a maths or a phonics lesson. Like many others, I find myself wondering if we are setting them up to fail by pushing too much on them too soon, and by making them sit still when they want to move their bodies.