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Teachers' reflections

A 360 overview of our Pupil Premium Strategy

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Jane Elsworth, the director and deputy headteacher of Huntington Research School, along with her colleague Julie Kettlewell, the assistant director and assistant headteacher, give us a full breakdown of their Pupil Premium strategy from start to finish. Our ways of …

Pupil Premium Strategy: We prioritise understanding our pupils’ key barriers to learning

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In this blog, staff from NEAT Academy Trust explain how they have mastered identifying complex needs of disadvantaged pupils and the resources needed to support the development of their strategy. This blog has been written by 3 authors who all …

Optimise the benefits of the National Tutoring Programme (NTP)

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  Jody Clarke is the deputy headteacher of Wood Green Academy, a secondary school in Wednesbury in the West Midlands. He shares advice for schools on optimising the benefits of tutoring by using a combination of school-led tutoring and academic …

Be brave, be you: how I learned to set boundaries as a school leader

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Andrea William-Jones is an assistant headteacher at Winterbourne Academy, South Gloucestershire, part of the Olympus Trust. She tells us how coaching and setting positive boundaries for herself has improved her wellbeing. Wellbeing is about having the courage to do what …

Embedding staff wellbeing at the heart of our school culture

In this blog post teachers at Bedford Academy share how they’ve prioritised teacher wellbeing and improved staff retention. How are you managing staff wellbeing? To manage wellbeing effectively, it can't be an add on, it needs to be part of …

Transform the planning and delivery of tutoring in your school

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Sez Aydin tutoring pupils at Haileybury Turnford school

Geography and business studies teacher Sez Aydin at Haileybury Turnford secondary school in Hertfordshire, shares how the role of tutoring coordinator has transformed the way they deliver school-led tutoring. This year, we are delivering school-led tutoring to approximately 200 pupils …

Create a flexible tutoring model to maximise the academic impact of tuition

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The Bemrose School in Derby has pupils aged 3-19. They started delivering tutoring in October 2020 to compensate for lost learning during the pandemic. Executive headteacher, Neil Wilkinson encourages other schools to develop a flexible tutoring model that is responsive …