One-in-Five students Start School Unable to Speak Well
Anne Longfield, the Children’s Commissioner, has stated that many children experience communication difficulties throughout their childhood, adding that it is mainly due to a ‘postcode lottery of care.’ Ms Longfield explained that this is due to the varying spending amounts depending on where you live as well as overall responsibility and a lack of certain […]
Ofsted Grades to Suffer with Overworking Teachers?
When a school gets the call to say, ‘an Ofsted Inspector will be within you soon;’ panic sets in for most. All teachers and SLT within any school want to be able to show off their development of their students through good paperwork and quality teaching application however, workload for teachers has always been an […]
Pupil Mental Health Services are Failing Students
Mental Health Services are ‘rapidly deteriorating’ which could cause children to have a higher risk of long-term psychological problems. The child and Adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) have had such drastic budget cuts that only those who can pay for help are being treated, leaving countless amounts of children and young people left without the […]
Behaviour Tools – How Many Do You Use?
Depending on the class you have and what subject you are teaching, different behaviour tools will be used to combat the various personalities. Do you use the classic behaviour tools? Do you try to reinvent the wheel a bit too often? It has been shown that the classics still work, but what do you think […]
Reception Baseline Assessment – Will It Work?
The baseline assessment will be brought into schools in Autumn 2020 however a pilot of the scheme will be utilised this Autumn. The aim of this initiative is assessing mathematics and language skills of every four and five-year-old starting school; this will mean that there will be added pressure on parents to get their children […]
