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Posted on November 8, 2016 by Tennyson Road Primary
Tennyson Road Primary is a 3-form entry, ‘Outstanding’ primary school in Luton. They achieved fantastic results in the 2016 national tests with 100% of Year 6 children getting a scaled score of 100 or more. Of their success, Head teacher Hilary Power told us: “How do we get our results? Yes we have fab teachers, but we couldn't do it without fab resources!”
The school has been using a broad range of Rising Stars resources, spanning across both curriculum and assessment, for over six years. Carla Gotch, Assistant Head teacher, has kindly shared feedback about some of the school’s favourite resources below.
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Posted on February 15, 2016 by Olivia Tanner
We are delighted to have been shortlisted for four ERA awards!
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Posted on November 24, 2015 by Morwenna
This is the final article in our working memory series. Our thanks to Dr Richard Skelton for this fantastic article on working memory training.
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Posted on November 17, 2015 by Morwenna
Difficulties with concentrating means that children aren’t able to use their Working Memory to process and make sense of information in class, which can lead to underachievement across the curriculum, including literacy and numeracy.
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Posted on November 11, 2015 by Morwenna
Difficulties with Working Memory can create barriers to children achieving in reading, writing, maths, and learning across the curriculum.
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Posted on November 3, 2015 by Morwenna
Working Memory is the ability to store and process information over a short period of time. This provides children with the capacity to think and learn.
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Posted on September 18, 2015 by Morwenna
Ellie Boylan and Sophie Quinn, Assistant Educational Psychologists share their experiences of using MeeMo as a working memory intervention at Our Lady’s and St Edward’s Primary School in Birkenhead.
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Posted on July 29, 2015 by Morwenna
Henwick Primary School in London has trialled MeeMo, the working memory programme, with a mixed ability Year 3/ 4 class and have had some great results!
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Posted on May 18, 2015 by Morwenna
We are delighted to be attending this year's Nasen Live show on the 20th and 21st May at the Macron Stadium, Bolton. This year's show focuses on “9 months into reform – early indicators of impact and planning for the year ahead”.
Find out more about our New Curriculum resources and pick up your FREE sample of one of our new series WordBlaze at Stand H3.
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Posted on May 8, 2015 by Morwenna
We are delighted to announce that Keldmarsh Primary School has won £1000 of Rising Stars resources!
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