What makes schoolchildren tick? For some, it’s decimals. For others, dance | Yvonne Roberts

One-size-fits-all teaching sets kids up to fail. Sometimes, you need to work against the systemThe Olympic medallist and former world champion javelin thrower, now a reality TV star, Fatima Whitbread, was abandoned in a flat at three months by her mother and left to die. She was raised in care, raped at 11 and adopted at 14.Whitbread may not initially appear to have much in common with the indomitable Deborah James, “Bowelbabe”, podcaster and author, who was diagnosed with incurable