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What early language intervention taught me

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What early language intervention taught me

Sallie Wood, at teaching assistant at Henleaze Infants School, shares how delivering the Nuffield Early Language Intervention (NELI) programme has become one of the most rewarding parts of her role.

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How we’re encouraging children at our school to read for pleasure

Posted by: Vanessa Hill and Liz Kenny, Posted on: 4 March 2024 - Categories: English Hubs

Liz Kenny, english hub lead, and Vanessa Hill, headteacher, at Whiston Worrygoose Primary school in Rotherham talk about their approach to encouraging reading, and the benefits it’s brought their pupils.

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How we’re striving to get more girls into computing

Posted by: Oliver Brotherhood, Posted on: 11 February 2024 - Categories: Computing, STEM

Oliver Brotherhood, Curriculum Lead for Computing and Computer Science at Penrice Academy, discusses the importance of adopting a whole-school approach to addressing gender imbalance in computer science.

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Inspiring and enabling pupil and learner voice

Posted by: Sue Matthews, Lynn Whitehead-Lewis and Emma Scelsi, Posted on: 5 February 2024 - Categories: Pupil wellbeing and behaviour

This week is Children’s Mental Health Week and the theme this year is ‘My Voice Matters’. Three mental health leads share how their schools are enabling pupil voice within their wider whole school and college approach to mental health and wellbeing.

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Use the National Tutoring Programme to prepare your pupils for exams

Posted by: Martin Leslie, Posted on: 29 January 2024 - Categories: Primary schools, Pupil wellbeing and behaviour, School funding, Secondary schools

Hall Mead School in Havering have been using small group tutoring through the National Tutoring Programme (NTP), and it’s proven to be effective in boosting pupils’ preparedness for exams.

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Our school’s behaviour strategy

Posted by: Polly Ross, Posted on: 18 January 2024 - Categories: Behaviour Hubs

Polly Ross, Headteacher at Shefford Lower school explains how the Behaviour Hubs programme helped improve behaviour at their school.

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Flexible working in our school

Posted by: Emily Crow, Posted on: 14 December 2023 - Categories: Flexible working, Teacher wellbeing

Emily Crow, deputy director at London South Teaching School Hub, shares Charles Dickens’ approach to flexible working and her experience of the benefits it has brought to the school community.

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How tutoring is helping to improve pupils’ attendance

Posted by: Pupil and staff at Nottingham Emmanuel School, Posted on: 4 December 2023 - Categories: School attendance
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In this blog, a teacher, tutor and pupil from Nottingham Emmanuel School explain how they’ve seen tutoring improve attendance.

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School leaders tips on their pupil premium strategy  

Posted by: Jane Elsworth, Clare Greene and Julie Kettlewell, Posted on: 29 November 2023 - Categories: Pupil Premium, Pupil wellbeing and behaviour, School funding, Secondary schools

In these 3 blogs, school leaders explain how they use pupil premium funding to improve the educational outcomes of disadvantaged pupils in their schools.  

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The difference ending term well makes to pupil attendance

Posted by: Richard Prime, Posted on: 27 November 2023 - Categories: Inspiring teachers, Pupil wellbeing and behaviour, School attendance, Secondary schools
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Richard Prime, the headteacher at Dame Elizabeth Cadbury School, explains the 6 steps schools can take to help ensure fantastic attendance on Fridays and during final weeks of term.   

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Teaching Awards Silver Winner shares top tips for school leaders

Posted by: Julie Deville, Posted on: 20 November 2023 - Categories: Inspiring teachers

Award-Winning Julie Deville, CEO of Extol Academy Trust, talks about her career and shares some top tips for fellow school leaders.

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