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Notes on Character and Heroism

Reflections, research and stories from the Being The Cure team on character education, moral leadership, and the Heroism Framework in practice.

From Vision to Reality: Response to the Government's Vision and Strategy for the Education System

The government's strategy document sets out a hopeful vision for every child to achieve and thrive. But as ever, the real question is how it becomes real in classrooms on a wet Tuesday afternoon.

Vijith Vijay · 26 February 2026 · 3 min read

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14 February 2026

Why the Heroism Framework Lives Inside the Writing Curriculum

Moral and character development are most powerful when they are not taught as separate topics, but formed through everyday learning — which is why the framework is embedded in writing, reading and oracy.

Vijith Vijay · 2 min read

14 February 2026

Why the Heroism Framework Is Not PSHE or Citizenship

PSHE and Citizenship teach pupils about life and society. The Heroism Framework shapes how pupils think, judge, speak, and act within their academic learning — a unifying moral lens, not a bolt-on.

Vijith Vijay · 3 min read

11 September 2024

This Is a Better Way to Evaluate Schools Than Removing Ofsted Labels

The proposal to remove Ofsted's one-word judgment is a significant shift — but it's also a chance to refocus school evaluation on character, wellbeing and long-term outcomes, not just measurable data.

Vijith Vijay · 5 min read

28 March 2021

Resilience in Children and Coping During the Pandemic: An Academic Article on Recent Literature

A review of the literature published during the pandemic on resilience in children — how families, schools and communities can nurture the capacity to adapt successfully to adversity.

Chelsea Dean · 5 min read

21 March 2021

Secret Formula Revealed for Schools by Mr. Krabs in Bikini Bottom!

What The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie can teach school leadership about staff wellbeing, appreciation, and why the secret ingredient was never the ingredients at all.

Vijith Vijay · 4 min read

22 February 2021

Is This Humility or Fear? The Real Life Thanos of My School!

A childhood memory of a feared PE teacher raises a bigger question: is outward respect built on fear, or on humility? And what does that mean for how we run our classrooms?

Vijith Vijay · 3 min read

8 February 2021

The Terror of the Classroom — Miracle Prodigy

A boy who terrified his classroom and his teachers turned out to be hiding an extraordinary gift — a story about what compassion and patience can uncover in a child everyone else had given up on.

Vijith Vijay · 3 min read

1 February 2021

The Seed of Trust

An emperor sets his kingdom's youth an impossible test to choose his successor. A parable about honesty, and why it is the seed that grows into trust.

Anonymous · 3 min read

25 January 2021

Can You Talk About Morality Without Actually Talking About It?

A school claiming to teach 23 values a term raises a question worth asking of any values curriculum: how many values can a jam-packed primary timetable really hold — and do we need them all?

Vijith Vijay · 3 min read

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