The Role of Creativity and Innovation in Teaching Innovative teacher Lucy Bate, of Delamere Academy in Tarporley, Cheshire, found a creative way of teaching her students their times tables. As a Key Stage 2 teacher she has been taking her classes outside and using a drone “to capture the imagination of her maths pupils.” The…
Teaching Twins and Multiples: A Teacher’s Guide (An Interview with Leonie Huie BEM) Schools are predominantly set up to teach children born in different years. With twins and multiples, it can become a challenge to ensure their needs are considered and that they are included. This extends to how teachers and schools communicate with them…
Managing Teacher Recruitment, Training and Retention With many schools, teaching unions and teachers expressing concerns about how safe the classroom is – despite reassurance from the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH), an article by Yvonne Williams in the Times Educational Supplement (TES), asks how many teachers have decided to quit their profession. …
Teacher role models: Learning from inspirational teachers Mark Siswick, Executive Headteacher of Chesterton Primary School, in south London, and co-founder of the Wandle Learning Trust, was honoured for services to education in the New Year’s Honours list by being awarded an MBE. The Northern Echo writes: “During the pandemic, he helped to create a national home learning…
Pandemic: How Teachers Can Help Pupils to Catch Up UK Schools were closed to all but key worker children on 5th January 2021 in response to COVID-19 – and re-opened on 8th March 2021. As schools re-open, and teachers adjust to their post-covid teaching jobs, Reuters reveals that the British government has pledged a £700m support package to…
Promoting literacy in schools School closures in the wake of Covid-19 restrictions have had a disproportionate effect on disadvantaged pupils, which could reverse any progress made over the last decade to narrow the attainment gap. These children were already twice as likely as their better off peers to leave primary school unable to read or…
Schools are going green – and saving money A former maths teacher has set up a project to build young people’s awareness of climate change and equip them with the knowledge and resources to tackle it in their own communities. Established in 2015, Henry Greenwood thought up the Green Schools Project while training as a maths teacher at Kingsmead…
Tackling food poverty during Covid-19 Fourteen per cent of UK families with children have experienced food insecurity in the six months up to August/September 2020, up from 11.5% before the pandemic. That’s according to research conducted by the New Food Foundation. The figure accounts for four million people, including 2.3 million children. While footballer Marcus Rashford…
What are the best teaching strategies for digital home learning? In November 2020 the media reported that OFSTED has found that the home learning experience has been at best patchy, and often failing to be aligned with the classroom curriculum. Remote learning increased in response to the Covid-19 pandemic when schools closed earlier in the…
Support to help school leaders overcome Covid-19 challenges. The UK government is delivering recovery support to schools and trusts to help them deal with the challenges of Covid-19. The support, announced on 9 November, will see ‘system leaders’ – successful headteachers or senior staff members – providing tailored assistance to schools and trusts facing particular…
