Did you go to the first BETT show put on since COVID hit our shores? With COVID still reported as an issue in many schools with high infection rates and staff shortages your answer might be NO… so allow us to give you a taster of what was on show. The razzmatazz was in full […]
Read moreOver on Reddit a post from a UK secondary school teacher caught our eye, as did the comments. In-school truancy. Disrupted classes. Year 7 and 8 not settling into secondary life, so going rogue. Are your staff constantly saying “year 7s don’t know how to behave”? Let’s take a birds eye view of this; kids […]
Read moreAre you wondering what more than new PE equipment you can spend your PE premium on? Did you carry over your underspend for your PE premium? Have you got outsourced PE provision but want to elevate your staff’s sporting knowledge? Do you find your pupils are more settled and ready to learn the more physical […]
Read moreYesterday was the big ‘masks off’ day meaning no more masks required in classrooms and corridors (although some schools have overridden this). This week healthcare professionals have highlighted children are currently the biggest group in the country infected with Omicron. So where does that leave schools? We ran a poll on Twitter (we have a […]
Read moreIn our current climate of Covid-19 ravaged schools Trust leaders have an opportunity to demonstrate strategic leadership. Leadership is about change. Setting the direction of change is fundamental to leadership. If you are focussed on keeping the systems and structures running for normal routines and behaviours to continue, you are simply managing the situation. Strategically […]
Read moreWhen your teachers are ill then having them ‘work from home’ is far from ideal. So don’t do it. Live lessons with a teacher suffering from COVID won’t be good enough for pupil progression, student engagement or embedding learning. Hybrid schooling is set to be the norm though. Sometimes a teacher might NOT be ill, […]
Read more“Take the time to make some sense of what you want to say And cast your words away upon the waves” The Masterplan When reading Nadhim Zahawi’s recent letter to school and college leaders, the opening lines of this classic Oasis song sprang to mind. You too can have a read by CLICKING HERE […]
Read moreHow do you drive school improvement by using YouTeachMe to support progress in maths? That very much depends on your school! If you’re an Early Years setting, you might choose to do it by sharing number songs and rhymes with your parents and carers, so they can sing them at home with their child […]
Read more10 years ago a struggling headteacher had an idea and so our story began. That (now ex) headteacher is our founder Paul Rose. His idea emerged as a result of him leading a failing infant school that rapidly improved. He left headship and ever since has worked to turn that idea into reality. For years […]
Read moreBoris Johnson’s Conservative Party suggestion to pay teachers up to £3,000 more in a ‘levelling up premium’ specifically for talented maths, physics and chemistry teachers to be parachuted into parts of the country where they’re most needed got us pondering. Is this simply the rehashing of ideas that failed over the past 10 years ago […]
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