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Posted on March 7, 2020 by Lucy at Rising Stars
International Day of Happiness
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Posted on February 11, 2020 by Kate Weston
Tuesday 11th February marks Safer Internet Day, established by the UK Safer Internet Centre, with this year's theme being 'Free to be' - looking at identity online.
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Posted on February 10, 2020 by Lucy at RS Assessment
On 27th January 2020 the DfE released draft guidance on The Engagement Model, a new form of assessment for pupils working below the standard of the national curriculum.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.
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Posted on February 3, 2020 by Lucy at Rising Stars
We have put together a selection of free activities and resources to help your class 'find their brave' this week for Children's Mental Health Week.
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Posted on January 28, 2020 by Lucy from RS Assessment
On 21st January 2020, Ofsted published its annual report on education, children’s services and skills. The report marked the introduction of Ofsted's new 'behaviour and attitudes' judgement which recognises the impact of disrupted classrooms on children's learning as well as pupil and teacher wellbeing.
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Posted on January 28, 2020 by Ruth Duckworth, Jonathon Smith and Joshua Sanghera
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.
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Posted on January 27, 2020 by Kate Weston
Rising Stars are proud to be partners with Tennyson Road Primary School in Luton, a school that has been using Achieve to prepare pupils for the National Tests since 2012 and Rising Stars Mathematics as their Maths scheme throughout the school since 2016.
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Posted on December 3, 2019 by Miles Berry, Dave Smith and Amanda Jackson
Find out how our Switched on Computing courses help meet the new Ofsted requirements with this set of FAQs put together by Switched on Computing author Miles Berry and Havering Computing experts Amanda Jackson and Dave Smith.
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Posted on November 12, 2019 by Alex at Rising Stars
To mark World Diabetes Day tomorrow (Thursday 14th November), we're giving away a free extract from Bionic T1D by Nina Wadia, a Reading Planet story about a young boy with very special super powers...
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Posted on November 5, 2019 by Lucy at Rising Stars
On 5
th November the DfE published new guidance and introduced the 'Six Character Benchmarks' to support the teaching of character education in primary schools.
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