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Posted on October 16, 2018 by Kate Weston
How can we measure the impact of our teaching on our students? - In the third and final part of his blogs about designing your school's maths curriculum, Nick Hart discusses how we can measure impact on students.
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Posted on October 9, 2018 by Natalie Bailey
Free analysis of pupil performance in the 2018 KS2 national tests for reading, maths, and grammar, spelling and punctuation.
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Posted on October 3, 2018 by Alexandra Taylor
This week's Wednesday Words blog, brings you a Year 5 vocabulary teaching activity which uses Alfred, Lord Tennyson's poem The Eagle to explore how vocabulary choices change and enhance meaning.
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Posted on October 1, 2018 by Lucy at Rising Stars
Today marks the start of this year's Dyslexia Awareness Week and we will be updating this page with the latests SEN blogs and updates throughout the week.
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Posted on September 24, 2018 by Bethan Chaplin Dewey
We're celebrating the European Day of Languages by taking a look at the benefits learning a second language can bring. We're also offering 25% off our Euro Stars resources until the end of September.
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Posted on September 20, 2018 by Bethan Chaplin Dewey
Celebrate National Poetry Day on the 4th of October with our collection of free poetry resources and activities.
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Posted on September 19, 2018 by Alexandra Taylor
This week, we bring you a Reception vocabulary teaching activity which uses the story of Hansel and Gretel to help children to develop an understanding of words to describe different characters.
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Posted on September 19, 2018 by Bethan Chaplin Dewey
We've collated all of our news, advice and free resources to help you keep abreast of what's going on in primary education, as well as the latest resources to help your child reach their full potential.
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Posted on September 13, 2018 by Sue Hackman
It has taken a lot of hours for Ofsted to discover that the primary curriculum is skewed by SATs, that the foundation subjects are being squeezed and creative teaching is not as widespread as they hoped. They find that timetabling is conservative, priorities are focused on the acquisition of knowledge and there is a lack of flair in some of the teaching. And, apparently, we don’t know what we mean when we say ‘skills’.
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Posted on September 12, 2018 by Sue Evans - Science coordinator at Phoenix Primary
Teach your children about the different functions of our bones and muscles with this fun practical lesson!
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