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From apartheid to aspiration: Jess’s journey of purpose and leadership

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From apartheid to aspiration: Jess’s journey of purpose and leadership

Jess Pather talks about how lived experience, strong role models, and a commitment to service shaped her leadership.

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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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Our school’s behaviour strategy

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

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: Teacher Mental Health and 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: RISE
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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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