Dealing With SEMH Issues in the Classroom
Social, Emotional, and Mental Health (SEMH) issues have become the proverbial elephant in the classroom, and are now recognised in the 2014 SEND Code of Practice. It’s vitally important to notice...
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Does Primary Baseline Assessment Benefit Children?
Is it right to assess four- to five-year-olds? The proposed baseline assessment test will only be sat for a few minutes, but the impact of these tests could be more...
Securing Additional Teaching Pay with TLRs
Average classroom teaching wages have received a £2,500 pay cut in real terms over seven years. Annual pay reviews haven’t risen at the same rate as inflation, and it’s leaving...
Closing the Digital Skills Gap
How many mobile phones have you confiscated this term alone? An annual computing education report from the University of Roehampton has found that only 12% of this year’s GCSE students have...
Promoting Football in Schools Without a Budget
Health and wellbeing is a key issue in today’s schools, and its importance is supported by a wealth of pedagogical publications. Schools are turning towards health and wellbeing programmes to...
Supporting GCSE and BTEC Students Through Examination Stress
We spend so much time focusing on the outcome of examinations and students’ results, it’s easy to forget about the impact this is having on their mental health. In this...
Five School Funding Grants You Should Know About
School pursestrings are getting tighter, and we’re all looking for alternative sources of funding. Fortunately, there are ways to raise non-statutory school income, whether by hiring out school premises or...
Teacher Survival Kit: The Essentials
What’s in your desk drawer? The marking you’ve been putting off? An assortment of paperclips and rubber bands? Maybe it’s the staff handbook you’ve never opened? It’s time to take back...
Hiring Out School Premises: Everything You Need To Know
Looking to let out your school premises? Unsure of where to start? Here’s our comprehensive overview of what to do. The Whys, Whats, and Whos Why Hire Out School Premises? At this point,...
What the Critical Window of Language Acquisition Means to Education
It’s usually agreed that the earlier children acquire a second language, the better their cognition and language acquisition skills in later life. In support of this, the findings of a...