Maximising Pupil Premium Impact: Whole-School Approaches That Work
Maximising Pupil Premium Impact: Whole-School Approaches That Work
Wilbury Primary School Headteacher, Lisa Wise, shares her approach to pupil premium.
Doing fewer things in greater depth: How we reduced teacher workload by restructuring our approach to planning.
At St Peter’s Primary school, North Somerset, we have long been looking into ways in which we can try to reduce teacher workload. We began our journey by reading the teacher workload review group paper 'Eliminating unnecessary workload around planning …
‘Mark however you think best’: A year in the life of a meaningful, manageable and motivating marking policy change
September 2017 Like many other schools around the country, we at Barr Beacon School found marking in a way that felt thorough and yet was not overly time consuming to be a significant challenge. A year ago, we reduced our …
Tackling Workload Reports: An ITT Provider’s Response
The University of Greenwich’s Primary Partnership is an outstanding provider of initial teacher training (Ofsted 2016). The partnership comprises over 200 maintained schools and academies across 19 local authorities in London, Kent, Essex and the southeast of England. Since the …
I’ve worked at just 1 school… but I’ve found a job for life
...that joined together in 2011 to form the L.E.A.D Academy Trust – ‘Lead, Empower, Achieve, Drive’. Huntingdon was then successful in achieving teaching school status in 2012, creating the L.E.A.D...
School improvement starts with high quality teacher training
A north-west teaching school is drawing on the power of a large collaboration of schools to create a successful teacher training operation.
School improvement – what is it like to be a school receiving support?
In 2013, Our Lady and St Benedict was judged to be requires improvement by Ofsted. At the time, they were operating with 50% supply teachers, struggling to get consistent teaching and the school was run-down. Now the corridors and classrooms …
An exciting model of teacher training
Amy Page is an assistant headteacher at Studley High, and runs the initial teacher training programme for the Shires Teaching School Alliance in Warwickshire. How did you get involved with...
Becoming a new teaching school
...capacity to develop others. https://youtu.be/8YMTAQgsm04 Building an open and honest alliance To succeed we knew we needed our alliance of schools to be open and honest. Our schools have to...
Unlocking the power of collaboration
Six Lincolnshire teaching school alliances unlocked the power of collaboration when they agreed to work closely together. We visited Kyra Teaching School Alliance to find out more.
Putting research at the heart of your school
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Primary schools, Professional Development
The Mead Academy Trust has put research and development at the very core of their work. They explain why research and development was chosen as a strategic priority and how it has been embedded across the alliance.