Solutions

Support staff can recognise and share their value by journaling

By recording and reflecting, ‘invisible’ staff can evidence their professional judgment and creativity, says Siobhan Melay

Freddie Whittaker
Dr Siobhan Melay
Solutions

New AI platform aims to make sense of ‘myriad of data’

Open Education AI formally launches as a 'sector-led non-profit' and seeks to help schools bring together data from multiple...

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Solutions

The school that confiscates phones for six weeks

Head whose abuse from parents was highlighted by MPs speaks to Schools Week about his strict policy approach

Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Lydia Chantler-Hicks
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Cinema trips and summer schools boost attendance 

We look at a school bucking the national trend of rising absences to learn how they're doing it

Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Lydia Chantler-Hicks
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Trust’s ‘FOMO Fridays’ help boost end-of-week attendance

Attendance boosted after initiatives aimed at making pupils feel they 'belong' and 'want to be in school' on Fridays

Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Lydia Chantler-Hicks
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Nine-day fortnight proves a big hit with Dixons staff

One term in, Schools Week visited Dixons Fazakerley Academy, in Liverpool, to see how it’s going...

Lucas Cumiskey
Lucas Cumiskey
Solutions

School trials free creche for teachers in latest flexibility push

Charles Dickens provides free breakfast and after-school club provision for the children of staff and a discounted on-site nursey

Lucas Cumiskey
Lucas Cumiskey
Solutions

Could ‘teacher in residence’ secondments help attract ‘gen Z’?

Study finds those entering the workforce today don't want 'linear' careers and crave a good work-life balance

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Solutions

Trusts target sixth formers in recruitment drive

Schools turn to homegrown talent in the face of severe teacher shortages and difficulties spending apprenticeship levy funding

Lucas Cumiskey
Lucas Cumiskey