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Developing a coaching culture in primary schools
What do we mean by a coaching culture and what does it matter in our primary schools anyway? How many times have you heard people say that you need a coaching culture in your school, and how many times have you thought, ‘that sounds interesting, but probably not for my... View Article
Category: School Leadership
How can we Progress Leadership Skills in Primary Schools?
What steps should we take to ensure leadership in primary schools is at its best in 2018? 2017 will have brought its successes and achievements and no doubt some difficulties and challenges, so you may be asking yourself, ‘what can I do this year to make progress in my school?’... View Article
Category: School Leadership
Ofsted Annual Report 2017
OfSTED Report 2017. Extract taken from the Focus Update Service. To sign up to the service, please click here. This year’s annual Ofsted report finds the overall quality of education and care in England is improving, but areas of persistent under-performance remain. Amanda Speilman’s Ofsted Annual Report 2017 Launching her first... View Article
Category: Inspection School Leadership
Teaching Assistants – Communicating with Children and Adults
Teaching Assistants – 3B Communicating With Children and Adults This extract taken from the Teaching Assistants Training Programme, Unit 3 – Section 3B, looking at communicating with children and then communicating with adults. As with any organisation, communication is vital if everything is going to work smoothly and consistently. As... View Article
Category: Teaching Guidance
Recognising Greater Depth in Writing
The below extract is taken from Writing at Greater Depth by Ros Ferrara. Click here to see sample pages. This publication looks at recognising greater depth in writing with children in each year group, it discusses a writing sample and offers suggestions to ensure progress and deep learning. The requirements... View Article
Category: English Mastery and Metacognition
Help Learners to Think Using Metacognition
How can we help learners to think metacognitively and how can thinking metacognitively help in accelerating pupil progress? Get pupils to: think about the planning, monitoring, and evaluation; talk aloud about how they think they can tackle the task (planning); talk about any adjustments they made as they were doing... View Article
Category: Mastery and Metacognition
History Learning Challenge Curriculum Plan
Free History Learning Challenge Curriculum Template Our Learning Challenge Curriculum plan, ‘What has changed since my grandparents were young?’ sample plan will help primary school history teachers to provide their pupils with fun and engaging history lessons while also integrating the learning of other subjects. This particular Learning Challenge plan... View Article
Category: Curriculum
The Development of Spelling in Primary Schools
Spelling in primary schools… What are the developmental steps that children go through in order to become confident and accurate spellers? The development of spelling in primary schools As in all areas, there is a developmental process in spelling that children go through in order to improve their spelling, and... View Article
Category: English
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