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Schools can help pupils in the heat – but they need long-term support

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NAHT has published guidance for school leaders during the latest heatwave

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Students know about apprenticeships – they just need the opportunities

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When the system works, everyone benefits. But access needs to keep apace.

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A vision for schools is in place. Let’s keep it that way

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A leadership contest is not the moment to yank the policy steering wheel for partisan effect

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Confidence grows when young people feel they really belong

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Helping pupils develop a secure sense of self is one of education’s key responsibilities

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Good allergy awareness is now essential at every school

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This is the term to start planning and implementing the new requirements of Benedict’s Law

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Supporting EAL students through the pandemic’s disruptions

Students with English as an additional language face the same challenges as all other learners, but some are unique to them, writes Ashwini Parulekar When it comes to closing the post-Covid learning gaps, one group is often left out of conversations. Yet, in terms of impact on educational outcomes, disruption to schooling for those with […]

Five government resolutions our teachers deserve for 2021

Our troubles are not at an end but we can lay the groundwork for a better post-Covid education system now, writes Alison Peacock As this year draws to a close, we understandably want to throw it out with the rubbish – along with all of those plans we made in January. However, amidst the chaos, […]

Time and again school leaders have risen to the Covid challenge – but at what cost?

There is no doubt as we enter the final turbulent days of 2020 that the parameters that underpin our education sector have been turned on its head. I was appointed to my first school leadership post in 1995, and for the past 25 years have been a leader and now a developer of leaders and […]

Making the best of tuition: tips for schools starting their NTP journey

The scope of the national tutoring programme and the breadth of providers and approaches are daunting. Simon Barnes sets out some first principles to help you get started As schools start to take advantage of the subsidised tuition on offer through the national tutoring programme, school leaders are keen to maximise return on investment and […]

Effective tutoring needs new thinking from school leaders

Tutoring can transform life outcomes for students – but ensuring the NTP’s success depends on school leaders understanding its unique principles, writes Julia Silver Good tutoring is a fantastic resource. The improvements it leads to transcend the topics or subjects covered in tutoring sessions, and this spill-over effect can transform a student’s interest in and […]

Primary testing in a pandemic: what is it good for?

The government’s moves on primary testing are welcome but the tests that remain don’t fufil the purpose they’ve been kept for, writes Alice Bradbury The announcement this month that Key Stage 1 SATs will be dropped in 2021 was a welcome relief for some teachers in primary schools. Alongside this, the DfE has decided that […]

A new sense of perspective is carrying the profession through Covid

Teachers felt more positive about their schools during than before the pandemic and understanding why is important for the future, writes Ben Aldridge As 2020 comes to a close, it would be easy to focus our reflections on the challenges we’ve faced as a profession. However, a little-discussed Pearson survey from earlier this year may […]

Ministers chose confrontation over collaboration when our communities needed them most

When the government issued Royal Greenwich with the threat of legal action on Monday night, I was completely shocked. At no point in the previous 24 hours did I genuinely think that trying to do the right thing for my local schools, in the face of surging infections and almost 4,000 pupils in self-isolation, could […]

How can we make school improvement sustainable?

Driving school improvement is first and foremost a question of capacity, writes Carole Willis I was delighted to be part of the NAHT’s School Improvement Commission (SIC) and to see NFER’s research play such an important role in informing its conclusions. Too often, school improvement is thought of as something for schools deemed ‘inadequate’ or […]

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