Executive Deputy Headteacher, Lyndsy Killip, at Queen’s Park Federation tells us about their experience of being an early adopter of wraparound childcare and the benefits wraparound has brought to their school community.
St Mary and St Thomas’ CE Primary School has just received Gold status for the Anti-Bullying Alliance All Together programme. Here Linda Smith, Director of Wellbeing, shares tips on tackling bullying and how she’s been able to put pupil wellbeing at the heart of the school ethos.
Recipient of the ABRSM Classical 100 competition, specialist music teacher, Ms Cecilia Kovacs, shares her experience of working with the Classical 100 resource and why she believes letting children take charge leads to creativity.
When I decided I just had to do something about reducing the crushing workload that our marking policy was inflicting on our teachers, I shared with the staff accounts of what a couple of other schools had done, such as …
It didn’t begin as a project about managing workload. It was about effective governance. Having recently been appointed as chair of governors at Hiltingbury Junior School, a three-form entry school in Hampshire, one of my first tasks was to manage …
We have always understood that our consistently outstanding outcomes are the result of our outstanding teachers and teaching assistants. Happy children are good learners and the quickest way to ensure children are happy at school is to make sure staff …
Iain Bradley from the DfE explains how schools can review and improve your handling of personal data.
In preparing for GDPR, the ICO’s ‘twelve steps to take now’ is a great starting point. But as time marches on there comes a point where it becomes ‘twelve steps to have taken then’ as schools and other organisations get …
Mapping our data landscape is the key step to ensure that the other aspects of GDPR we are focussing on are built upon solid foundations. As May 2018 and GDPR coming into effect draw ever closer, we are using it …
As mentioned in David’s blog, GDPR can help facilitate some very useful conversations. It has been the case in our school too. I confess I thought having EU regulations about data on the agenda for a staff meeting at the …
Last year, at Prince Henry’s Grammar School in Otley, West Yorkshire, the findings of the Marking, Planning and Data Workload Review groups were presented to colleagues in a whole-staff meeting. Everyone from classroom teachers to SLT was asked to think …