From Crisp Packets to Wormeries – How One Eco-school is Taking Recycling to the Next Level Over the past four years, committed recycler Karen Hill has been on a mission to help spread the environmental message at Nields Junior, Infant and Nursery School in Huddersfield. It all started in 2018 when the Parent-Teacher Association (PTA)…
Is More Training Needed for Teachers to Teach SEND Pupils? The National Deaf Children’s Society claims that most teachers don’t know how to teach deaf children. The findings of a survey it recently conducted showed that a third of the teachers participating in the study aren’t confident in teaching them. This raises the questions about…
Building an Effective Enrichment Programme at Your School A broad extra-curricular programme can help create well-rounded students and put schools ahead of local competitors when it comes to attracting new pupils. That’s why headteachers are recognising the importance of supplementing the curriculum with well thought out enrichment activities. Why should schools offer enrichment activities? An…
‘How Teachers Can Improve Financial Education in Schools’ The Money and Pensions Service (MaPS) launched a new initiative in November 2021 to promote ‘Financial Education Guidance for Primary Schools in England’. It will act as the co-ordinator of the 10-year UK Strategy for Financial Wellbeing, and IFA Magazine says it is “aimed at encouraging conversations…
‘Teacher Recruitment: Is it time to change the image of teaching?’ With teachers often demanding better conditions, people often complain that teachers are already well-off, thinking they have long holidays. However, teaching is anything but easy and teachers deserve to be paid more. More to the point, they are often working during school holidays –…
How to Help Children With Dyslexia Dyslexia affects one in five children in every classroom, according to Kate Griggs, founder and chief executive of Made By Dyslexia, a charity raising awareness of the issue. That’s why she believes it’s crucial that all teachers – not just those focusing on special educational needs – are able…
Should Schools Ban Phones or Embrace Technology in Education? With an increasing number of parents seeing smartphones as a distraction in schools – particularly in the classroom, questions are arising about whether they should be completely banned, or whether they can actually be managed in such a way that they can benefit children and their…
7 Top Tips for Improving Pupils’ Grades As schools focus on trying to make up for learning lost during lockdown, teaching professionals will be looking at ways of boosting their students’ performance. Here are a few tried and tested methods that some of the UK’s top secondary schools are putting into practice. Using assessment to…
How is teacher training being shaken up? Here is what schools need to know The government has published the outcomes of its major teacher training review, outlining how the sector could be radically reshaped over the course of the next academic year. The Times Educational Supplement (TES) adds: “The Department for Education (DfE) expert advisory…
How Schools Use Public Speaking to Build Pupils’ Leadership Qualities Students are honing their debating skills as part of schools’ involvement with the English Speaking Union (ESU), which works up and down the country to promote oracy. Oracy means being able to speak eloquently, express ideas and thoughts and influence others through talking. It involves…
