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From grey to green: Transforming a flooded space into a thriving eco-garden

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From grey to green: Transforming a flooded space into a thriving eco-garden

Chilton Trinity Secondary in Bridgwater explains how the school transformed a previously unused, waterlogged area into a vibrant eco-garden

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Keeping pupils active to support their wellbeing

Posted by: Andrew Aalders-Dunthorne, Posted on: 10 May 2024 - Categories: Enrichment

CEO of The Consortium Trust, Andrew Aalders-Dunthorne shares insight about the Trust’s active and outdoor based curriculum.

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Breaking barriers: School’s drive to close the attainment gap using tutoring

Posted by: Simon Bush, Posted on: 8 May 2024 - Categories: Curriculum

Executive headteacher at The Green Way Academy, Simon Bush, shares his experience of using the National Tutoring Programme (NTP) to support disadvantaged pupils during the school holidays.

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Offering wraparound childcare at our schools

Posted by: Lyndsy Killip, Posted on: 17 April 2024 - Categories: Enrichment

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.

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Supporting every learner using the National Tutoring Programme

Posted by: Meic Griffiths, Posted on: 15 April 2024 - Categories: Curriculum

Executive Headteacher at the Imperium Federation, Meic Griffiths, shares his experience using the National Tutoring Programme (NTP) to support pupils at the federation.

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How schools are using data to improve school attendance

Posted by: Kate, headteacher and Sam, executive leader, Posted on: 21 March 2024 - Categories: RISE

In this blog, we hear from attendance leads from a school and a trust explain how they are using the Monitor Your School Attendance tool to improve strategies to attendance and have more meaningful conversations with families, head teachers and local authorities.

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National Tutoring Programme funding used to deliver holiday tuition

Posted by: James Chamberlain, Posted on: 12 March 2024 - Categories: Curriculum
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Assistant headteacher, James Chamberlain, shares how he used his school’s National Tutoring Programme (NTP) funding to introduce holiday tuition.

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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: Curriculum

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: Curriculum

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 Belonging and Engagement

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: Curriculum

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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