The Knowledge

Can combining language and movement improve both?

Anna Cunningham sets out the results of a new study for into combining exercise and literacy with young pupils...

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Dr Anna Cunningham
Opinion: Accountability

The Plymouth Playbook: Piloting people through improvement

Aaron Meredith tries to bottle the strategy that has driven his southwest schools to Ofsted success with people, not...

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Aaron Meredith
Opinion: Curriculum

Let’s finally embrace the marriage of knowledge and skills

We must get past an ill-informed and fruitless opposition between knowledge and skills in order to make better policy

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Tim Oates
Opinion: Workforce

The ITTECF is another step forward for inclusive teaching

Changes to the early-career framework are putting pupils with additional needs at the heart of teacher training, say contributors...

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Margaret Mulholland and Simon Knight
Opinion: Workforce

Five changes to the ECF to better back trainee teachers

Damian Hinds explains how reforms announced today will tackle teething problems with the early career framework identified by schools...

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Damian Hinds MP
Opinion: Policy

Three proposals to fix our fractured school system

Schools structures may not seem like a priority but political failure to grasp the nettle is costly and diverts...

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Tom Richmond
Opinion: SEND

Solutions: Breaking down barriers for students with SEND

Putting the needs of pupils with SEND at the heart of every decision is key to improving attendance, mental...

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Ben Mallinson
Opinion: SEND

How trusts can take the lead on speech and language provision

Our in-house speech and language service is helping our pupils, our staff, and taking pressure off the system for...

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Kylie Rio-Wood
Opinion: Leadership

The moral panic over school prayer exposes our double standards

National turmoil over prayer in schools reveals a glaring Islamophobia at the heart of some people’s concept of Britishness

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Nadeine Asbali