Curriculum
Posted on October 10, 2019 by The Rising Stars Team
What should we expect of a primary subject leader? With the new Ofsted framework now coming into effect, a new article by James Bowen on the TES website calls for Ofsted to be realistic about expectations placed on subject leaders in light of such a big change.
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Curriculum
Posted on October 10, 2019 by Peter Richardson
"We use On Track Maths as our whole school ‘catch up’ program for children who need intervention support. This is massively important in a school with a mastery approach where everyone moves on together. Without something as high quality and rigorous as On Track Maths in place, the whole mastery approach would be at risk of collapsing at any point." Read on to find out what else Walton-le-Dale Primary School have to say about our intervention resource, On Track Maths!
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Assessment
Posted on October 8, 2019 by RS Assessment from Hodder Education
Join us on our journey with St Barnabas Church of England First and Middle School as we explore their use of our termly standardised assessment suites PiRA, PUMA, GAPS and NTS Assessments. St Barnabas also makes full use of MARK, our free online assessment and reporting tool trusted by over 6,000 schools.
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Curriculum
Posted on October 8, 2019 by Rising Stars and RS Assessment
We are delighted to announce that a number of our resources have received awards in this year's Teach Primary Awards!
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Curriculum
Posted on October 4, 2019 by Anthony Barlow
"A high-quality geography education should inspire in pupils a curiosity and fascination about the world and its people that will remain with them for the rest of their lives.” (DfE, 2014)
It is worth reminding ourselves of the first line of the National Curriculum and the power of curiosity and fascination that any geography teaching might include. How might we bring that about in geography? In this blog Anthony Barlow, one of the authors of Rising Stars: Geography discusses some ideas.
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Assessment
Posted on October 1, 2019 by RS Assessment from Hodder Education
RS Assessment from Hodder Education spoke with Alexandra Paine, the Senior Leader for Mathematics and Numeracy at Magnus Church of England Academy, to find out how PUMA KS3 has helped to reduce teacher workload and motivate students.
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Curriculum
Posted on October 1, 2019 by The Rising Stars Team
First organised by Ghanaian activist Akyaaba Addai-Sebo, Black History Month in the UK has been celebrated every October since 1987. Find out more and discover resources and competitions to help you celebrate with your pupils.
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Curriculum
Posted on September 30, 2019 by Ruth Duckworth
Christ Church CE Primary School share tips on how to enhance children's vocabulary.
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Curriculum
Posted on September 18, 2019 by Clare Wood
With the new academic year now well underway, it’s a good time to start to think about the ways in which we can create classroom and home environments that will support and nurture our children, and especially those who might be beginning to struggle with the school environment.
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Curriculum
Posted on September 16, 2019 by Madeline Barnes
The 2019 Key Stage SATs results have been published. For reading, the percentage of pupils achieving the expected standard is 73%.
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