Numeracy

Maths to 18 for all means rethinking maths altogether

The PM’s maths proposal has rightly been met with cynicism but it does present an opportunity to rethink our…

JL Dutaut
Mark Boylan
Community

School networks are vital to community safety

Schools can’t provide everything children and families need to meet this crisis – but they can act as vital…

JL Dutaut
Christine Stansfield
Opinion

To parents, thriving children are more important than the academies debate

‘Most of the parents we spoke to were not only uninterested, but frankly unaware of what academisation means’

Freddie Whittaker
Meg Price


Mental health

Mental health: How schools are mitigating poverty

Schools are increasingly mitigating the effects of poverty to safeguard children’s wellbeing and learning, writes Kate Richardson

JL Dutaut
Kate Richardson
Christmas

A Christmas mission from GCHQ

Schools Week brings you a classroom activity for your pupils from GCHQ, with love

JL Dutaut
JL Dutaut
Year in review

Alternative Provision been heard, but now we need action

2022 began with encouraging signs APs and PRUs were finally getting the attention they deserve, says Sarah Johnson, but…

JL Dutaut
Sarah Johnson
The Knowledge

How is levelling up progressing in the north east?

The latest survey of schools in our region shows some progress in one respect but concerning trends in all…

JL Dutaut
Chris Zarraga
Year in review

Creativity saw us through a year of plentiful challenges

A week from retirement, Madelaine Caplin looks back on a tumultuous, frustrating but also joyous final year of her…

JL Dutaut
Madelaine Caplin
Year in review

As ministers hokey cokeyed, schools took the lead again

A year characterised by an in, out, in out, shake it all about of people and policy ends with…

JL Dutaut
Diana Ohene-Darko

Must Read

Opinion: Reading

A reading target is right. Here’s how schools can make it happen

Targets and regular tests can transform outcomes, but only if schools build the systems, culture and expertise to deliver,…

John Dickens
Becks Boomer-Clark
Opinion

Leadership lessons from Southport’s darkest days

In the wake of unimaginable loss, trust leader David Clayton shares how compassion, presence and belonging came to define…

Freddie Whittaker
David Clayton
Opinion: Solutions

Five do-now strategies to ease the Year 7 dip

Here’s what we’ve learned from our programme to tackle disengagement in an area where the problem is pervasive

JL Dutaut
Rebecca Maw

ITT

ITT

Degree apprenticeships are key to increasing and diversifying recruitment

Work to deliver the new qualification should continue at pace to meet recruitment challenges by making teaching more accessible,…

JL Dutaut
Melanie Renowden
ITT

ITT: Which is the odd one out?

The deeply flawed ITT reforms are a threat to sustainable teacher supply for purely ideological purposes, writes David Spendlove

JL Dutaut
David Spendlove

EXAMS

Exams

University clearing: How teachers can support students 

All the important details school staff need to help youngsters through clearing this year

John Dickens
Sam Sykes
Exams

How sitting an exam re-affirmed my respect for our students

I still believe exams to be the best way of testing academic knowledge and understanding but they’re no bagatelle,…

JL Dutaut
James Handscombe

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