GDPR Here at Focus Education, we’ve been super busy ensuring everything we do at focus-education.co.uk complies with the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) when they come into force on Friday 25th May 2018. The changes to how we handle data to comply with the highest EU data protection standards... View Article
Focus News – Christmas Term 2017 … And 2017 is coming to a close… what a whirlwind of a year it’s been! Take a look at the highlights of the Autumn Term. Charity Fundraising It is important to us that we get involved in charity events and fundraising. This term... View Article
Embed a rich and engaging English and Maths Curriculum into your primary school... We were excited to hold our first ever VIP Event at Madeleine Lindley bookshop this month to introduce our latest product - Focus English, and give Focus Maths users a recap and refresh of Focus Maths. The... View Article
Competition Closed Are you using the Learning Challenge Curriculum? Win £250 for your school. Are you a school using Focus Education’s Learning Challenge Curriculum or considering using it? You could win £250. All you need to do is show us how you’re using it! How do I enter? We are inviting schools to... View Article
The Latest News from Focus Education We’ve had another jam-packed term at Focus Education and we are all ready and excited for the summer break. Here is a short but sweet round up of the Focus Education news from the Summer Term. Focus Education Technology Our new website is now... View Article
The Latest News from Focus It’s been another busy term at Focus Education and we are ready for the Easter break. we have produced a quick round up of the Focus Education news from the Spring Term. Exciting Tech and Product Developments We are in the process of developing our... View Article
Focus Education at Inspiring Leadership 2017 What an unbelievably INSPIRING time we had at Inspiring Leadership this year. We loved meeting fantastic delegates and other exhibitors, and learning about different leadership experiences in the education world. We’d like to say a massive thank you to everyone who made our time... View Article
First things first. How do you like your brew? And would you like a biscuit for dunking?I love a cup of milky coffee in the morning (my 90 year old grandad, who works with us at Focus, always makes me the best brew). Then I drink tea for the rest... View Article
Many primary school leaders evidently see history as a strength in their curriculum given the proportion of history deep dives carried out during inspection, normally based on the headteacher suggesting this subject when asked to suggest a subject that is a strength. This makes sense… History is very... View Article
Starting this term (September 2023), Ofsted are making changes to the way they inspect schools. These changes are not huge, but they affect the inspection process and some of the protocols involved. It is important to note that although the changes may be relatively small, they are still significant... View Article
Developing progression across the Primary curriculum is an absolutely crucial aspect of developing learners who continue to be successful throughout their education. As teachers, what we do matters so much more than just for the day, week or term that we teach something, but in the wider sense of what... View Article
We all have the subject or subjects in the primary curriculum which are our ‘favourites’, perhaps because we studied them at university or because they reflect a personal interest or hobby such as aspects of PE or the arts. Geography is one of mine, despite having absolutely no sense of... View Article
Behind the daily headlines are the schools and the teachers struggling to settle and teach new asylum-seeking and refugee pupils. And the support that you receive to achieve this is patchy at best and often non-existent. Autumn term will undoubtedly bring more of these pupils into your classrooms – often... View Article
When I was still in the classroom my favourite way to deliver a History lesson was to make it personal. I gave the children a story that they could believe in, with amazing characters that would relate to their own lives. I then rooted it meticulously in a different time,... View Article
Is there a danger that school leadership can become overly complicated? What is the essence of leading a great school? It goes without saying that at the heart of great leadership is the relentless drive to get the best for your children.
Before writing the usual blogs about all things educational that will appear throughout the year, I thought I would put together something that stems from the Summer holidays before they are too much of a distant memory and we all get back into the swing of a new term. On... View Article
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