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Harriet Sweatman
All articles by Harriet Sweatman
Coronavirus: ‘Just like that, I had left school’
A student in Scotland writes about missing the ‘last golden moments of school’ and the uncertainty of what happens next
31 March 2020
‘Exam results won’t matter at all a decade from now’
With SQA results day approaching, one 16-year-old student offers a reminder that exam grades ‘don’t define us as people’
2 August 2019
‘Children must be freed from the curriculum’s chokehold’
Read one pupil’s account of the hopelessness of life in secondary school, which won her a national writing prize
27 February 2019