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Wraparound childcare guidance for schools

21 February 2024

The Department for Education (DfE) has produced guidance to help schools offer new or expanded wraparound childcare, with support from the national wraparound childcare programme. This non-statutory guidance explains the role…

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Small schools: Leadership, curriculum and pedagogy

20 February 2024

On this episode of the Thinking Deeply about Primary Education podcast, Kieran Mackle is joined by Aimee Tinkler to talk about life in small schools; covering everything from leadership and…

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EYFS science – Teaching science vocab and linking to KS1 learning

19 February 2024

To enable children in Early Year settings to develop early scientific skills, we need to equip them with the correct language.  Widening their scientific vocabulary will facilitate their EYFS science…

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Future dates for primary assessments

18 February 2024

Below are the future dates for primary school assessments in the academic years 2024 to 2025 and 2025 to 2026. Please note that Key Stage 1 SATs are optional but…

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Vulnerable pupils less likely to attend extracurricular clubs

17 February 2024

'Access to extra-curricular provision and the association with outcomes' report examines which students are accessing extra-curricular activities during secondary school and the longer-term outcomes of students who do participate. Whilst this…

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Alternative Provision is in need of reform, review finds

16 February 2024

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) and Ofsted have recently published a thematic review looking at how education, health and care partners work together to commission and oversee alternative provision (AP). Ofsted and…

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Do you know what ‘doxing’ is?

15 February 2024

The South West Grid for Learning has produced a useful guide for professionals, parents and carers explaining what doxing is and how to protect against it. Doxing is a practice…

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Free online twilight: Effective Feedback

14 February 2024

In this free online session Tom Bithell, will discuss the EEF recommendations to support high quality feedback. The guidance report is based on the best available international evidence, in addition…

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EEF: Fully funded professional development for early years staff

6 February 2024

The EEF have launched three new trials that will test the impact of three promising professional development programmes for early years educators:- Emotion Coaching- Talking Time- NELI PreschoolEarly years settings…

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SEND – Getting evidence into the classroom – free twilight programme

5 February 2024

Join Greenshaw Research School for a free online session on SEND. The FREE session will run online on Zoom on Monday 26th February from 3:45pm – 4:45pm. Focus - Evidence Takeaways: Strategic SEND. This session is…

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Does the data really matter when it comes to improving literacy?

4 February 2024

In England last year (2022−2023) only 44% of our disadvantaged children reached the combined national expectation in reading, writing and maths in KS2, compared to 66% of children who were not disadvantaged…

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Children’s Wellbeing in a Digital World

3 February 2024

The Children’s Wellbeing in a Digital World: Index Report 2024 is the third report in the annual series. Internet Matters wellbeing research focuses on both the positive and negative impacts…

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