Bridget Stockdale | Schools Week

A breath of fresh air, a taste of adventure and the chance to win a free school trip!

A Kingswood trip offers a sense of adventure and a taste of independence; benefits which last way beyond a child’s return to the classroom. Our brilliant experiences for young people help them shake off the stresses of the past year and make memories which will stay with them for the rest of their lives. Kingswood […]

Understanding Assessment: empowering teachers with a new course

Only one third of teachers feel ‘very confident’ conducting assessment as part of their day-to-day teaching, and under half of teachers received training in assessment as part of their initial teacher training. These were the concerning findings of the final report of Making Waves: Building a Better Future for Assessment issued at the end of […]

SPONSORED: Get back to school with BBC Bitesize this Autumn

Schools have opened their doors again but this Autumn term looks very different with staggered school days, year groups in bubbles and possible localised school closures. Following the success of last term’s Bitesize Daily lessons, we have launched BBC Bitesize Autumn 2020 to support teachers, parents and students during this uniquely challenging term. We’ve done […]

SPONSORED: Starting the Autumn Term in the right frame of mind – how can Alps help?

Following a tumultuous Results Season which has proved challenging for schools and colleges and for our students, our attentions turn to the new Academic Year. How do we do our best for our returning students, both those who have not been through the CAG process and those returning to start their KS5 courses? Here we […]

SPONSORED: The Skills Network’s Free LMS To Accelerate Schools’ Online Delivery

Leading online learning provider, The Skills Network (TSN), has today announced that it will permanently offer its learning platform for free to schools, in order to help accelerate a quality benchmark within the education industry. TSN’s learning management system and course authoring tool, EQUAL, will now be available to any school or organisation across the […]

SPONSORED: Assessing Primary Writing

Research shows that assessing children’s writing is one of the hardest and most time-consuming tasks a teacher faces. Comparative Judgement is a completely different way of assessing writing that is far more accurate and much quicker too. There are six national windows every year, one per year group. Here’s how it works. Before writing […]

SPONSORED: Top ways to improve your school staff’s wellbeing

As a senior leader in education, your role will no doubt have its ups and downs and you want to ensure that you have a team around you who are managing their stress. Working in education can be one of the most rewarding sectors in the world, but it is also one of the most […]

SPONSORED: How to use Alps Connect Interactive to assist with your grading

Alps is committed to supporting all schools and colleges during these extraordinary times – and not just those who have used our services recently. We are offering Alps Connect Interactive between now and June 2020 at no extra charge to all schools and colleges. Existing Alps schools and colleges will have Connect Interactive enabled for both Key Stages by […]