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A tribute to the professionalism and dedication of our staff and our clients. We at Teach Now are delighted to announce that we’ve just been awarded Recruitment & Employment Confederation (REC) Audited Education Status – and we’d like to take this opportunity to thank all of our team, and our
What can we do about the SEN & SEND teacher shortage? As we leave behind what’s already being called the second ‘winter of discontent’, the coming spring offers little prospect of a thaw in relations between the government and the teaching unions. Of course, the dispute isn’t just about money
What will it mean for teachers? Having seen the New Year in with a fresh wave of strikes as civil servants joining transport workers, nurse, and ambulance staff and junior doctors are being polled about possible action, the government is pressing ahead with its Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill. Will
What do teachers think? And what does it mean? In his new year message, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak talked about a ‘new mission’; to ‘reimagine our approach to numeracy’, going on to say that all pupils in England will have to study maths up till the age of eighteen. It’s a
For those of us who spent many years of our working life in the late 20th century, the 21st century doesn’t look much like the ‘Brave New World’ we all hoped for. Few of us have a ‘job for life’ and with the rise of ‘zero hours contracts’ and the ‘gig economy’,
Not just a health hazard: ‘an enormous distraction’ for pupils. The days of young people ‘smoking behind the bike sheds’ may be a dim and distant memory (for those of us who’ve been in the profession long enough to remember them at all) but a recent article in the Guardian
Support for families to improve school attendance. Senior school, primary school, infant school teachers, teaching assistants and those of us in the teaching recruitment arena… One thing we all have in common is a passion for education – and it’s a perennial disappointment when, despite all of our efforts, societal
Government announces new bursaries for upskilling and retraining. In line with the government’s commitment to give tens of thousands of people the chance to retrain in later life, the Secretary of State for Education James Cleverley announced on the 15th July new bursaries to help people attend more than a hundred
Government to back Britain’s young players with major investment in music and sport. Acknowledging the vital role of music in developing not only young people’s creativity but also their cognitive development – and that of sport, not just in developing our future champions but in nurturing wellbeing, both physical and
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) member
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 whether there is a need
A broad extracurricular 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 associate head teacher at a