Curriculum
Posted on December 5, 2018 by Athena at Rising Stars
We've got 12 festive freebies to give away this December. Visit the Festive Freebies webpage each day to discover discounts, free classroom activities and a few special surprises!
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Assessment
Posted on November 29, 2018 by RS Assessment from Hodder Education
We are delighted to announce the new partnership between our standardised tests for primary schools and Arbor's cloud-based MIS for schools & MATs.
Our standardised tests for primary schools
Our standardised tests, PiRA and PUMA, are a key component of many primary school improvement strategies, helping key stakeholders to track pupils’ in-year progress and benchmark against age-related expectations.
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Curriculum
Posted on November 27, 2018 by Catherine Casey
Catherine Casey, co-author of
On Track English: Writing and Grammar, take us through her top tips for writing and grammar intervention.
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Assessment
Posted on November 21, 2018 by RS Assessment from Hodder Education
From Katie Blainey, Publishing Director, RS Assessment from Hodder Education
Thousands of primary schools are now using
PiRA and
PUMA to get rich termly data that highlights pupils’ strengths and weaknesses, which helps support tailored teaching and learning throughout primary school years. In the last few years
MARK (My Assessment and Reporting Kit) has become an increasingly popular support for schools to enter their test results and quickly analyse data for pupils, classes and the whole school. As the number of results in the MARK database increased we wanted to see if any trends were emerging at an aggregated level, as we know large data sets of this size are rare.
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Assessment
Posted on November 21, 2018 by The RS Assessment Team
RS Assessment from Hodder Education have worked with SchoolDash to provide a high-level analysis of over 1.5 million anonymous termly standardised test results from the MARK database.
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Curriculum
Posted on November 12, 2018 by Dee Reid
Dee Reid, author of
On Track English: Reading Comprehension, take us through her top tips for teaching reading comprehension and encouraging a love of reading in children.
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Curriculum
Posted on November 8, 2018 by Kate Weston
Enjoy this free practical science lesson with your class and show them how animals have adapted to their environment.
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Curriculum
Posted on November 7, 2018 by Zoe at Rising Stars
Next week is Anti-bullying week. We know it's important to make sure your child feels happy and safe at school and online at home so we've compiled some helpful resources to help you ensure your child's online safety.
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Curriculum
Posted on November 2, 2018 by Lucy at Rising Stars
Celebrate Bonfire night by starting your English lessons with a firework reading comprehension task from Assessment Bank.
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Curriculum
Posted on October 26, 2018 by Athena at Rising Stars
This term, we've got a simple mission. We want to ensure that you can access high-quality reading resources for your pupils at the very best value. Order by the 31st December 2018 and we'll match fund any Reading Planet order, pound for pound.
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