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Following the government's announcement that £650 million will be split between state primary and secondary schools to help make up for missed education, new government-backed guidance from the Education Endowment Foundation has set out the interventions that schools could spend their additional catch-up funding on.

As children and young people return to school after the Covid-19 closures, it will not just be a process of ‘picking up where we left off’. The lockdown will have been experienced differently by pupils. What is certain is that they will all have had to cope with a loss of some kind. It could be the loss of their familiar structure and routine that school provided, or the loss of being with their friends.

Monitoring and supporting children’s wellbeing and attitudes to learning is going to be such an important aspect of the new normal. Professor Clare Wood, from Nottingham Trent University, discusses.

On 27th January 2020 the DfE released draft guidance on The Engagement Model, a new form of assessment for pupils working below the standard of the national curriculum.  The Engagement Model replaces P Scales 1-4 and will become statutory from the 2020/21 academic year.

Our Year 6 pupils are expected to achieve ever deeper knowledge in their reading every year, but in 2019 the pace required to read and understand the three texts was thrust up a gear again. In many schools, a common focal point this academic year has been to push on children’s pace of reading (and responding) to endeavour to address the seemingly relentless challenge.

With 10% of children and young people having a clinically diagnosable mental health issue it remains concerning that 70% have had no appropriate interventions.  The impact of this is evident in schools where Mental Health and Wellbeing is being placed high on agendas. 

Get ready for bonfire night by starting your English lessons with this firework themed reading comprehension quiz from Question Bank.

In August, the Joint Council for Qualifications (JCQ) released new guidelines for access arrangements which came into effect on the 1^st September.

We are delighted to announce that a number of our resources have received awards in this year's Teach Primary Awards!

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.