How schools are using innovative ways to support student wellbeing
How schools are using innovative ways to support student wellbeing
School staff share their approaches to student wellbeing
Classical 100: a treasure chest of resources
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.
How we stopped marking
Reducing teacher workload with new marking strategies 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 …
Managing staff workload – a governor’s perspective
...we would be able to define a common set of data that meets the needs of both. Getting started To achieve this, I met with the assistant headteacher and data...
Outstanding does not mean overworked
...child in their class by using whichever approach works best for them, and their pupils. Pupils are taught so that they are supported in their learning or stretched, depending on...
Video: GDPR Guidance for Schools
Iain Bradley from the DfE explains how schools can review and improve your handling of personal data.
Twelve steps to take now, or twelve steps to take then?
...of personal data, special category data, data audit, lawful basis and conditions for processing, data retention, privacy notice, subject access request, data protection impact assessments and data breach. You’re going...
GDPR Readiness: Focus on Catering
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 …
Talking with Staff on GDPR
...data. Our early staff engagement focussed on three key areas. Raise awareness We talked about how the data world has changed in the 20 years since the Data Protection Act...
Quality, not quantity: how teacher workload has been reduced by focusing on quality
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 …
The leadership equality and diversity fund is supporting diverse school leadership
We speak to participants taking part in school-led equality and diversity projects to find out more about the tools and techniques schools use to support teachers with leadership potential.