How collaboration improved primary-secondary transition
Emily Robinson, Y7 head, Simon Balle All-through School, describes the outcomes of their efforts to give students, parents and teachers a positive start to the secondary phase.
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Conference presentation will show how you can boost performance and reduce workload with AI
Snapshot of Priya Lakhani’s upcoming presentation at SSAT National Conference 2018 in Birmingham this December.
Still not listening
Today (Friday 28 September) our chief executive, Sue, and I joined thousands of headteachers and school leaders on the march to Downing Street to deliver a letter and petition to the chancellor, urgently requesting sufficient, and fair, funding for our schools.
Collaboration to improve year 6/7 transition
Emily Robinson, year 7 leader, Simon Balle All-Through School, describes their approach to liaison with SLT, parents, year 7 tutor team, students and other schools.
Whispering away maths anxiety
Henri Yeoman (née Plag), head of maths at Thornaby Academy and SSAT Lead Practitioner writes.
A digital learning school: we can do it
– even though we have more constraints than those in the USA, writes Emma Smith, principal, Leigh Academy Blackheath, part of the Leigh Academies Trust.
Accountability, Ofsted and all that
Colin Logan, SSAT senior education lead, explores the implications of the NAHT commission report on how the school accountability framework can be strengthened and improved.
Giving classrooms global context through the ‘World’s Largest Lesson’
Alison Bellwood, director of the World’s Largest Lesson, Project Everyone, exhorts teachers and school leaders to introduce the United Nations’ sustainable development goals in their school.
A school-based framework to equip teachers in addressing students’ mental health
SSAT Leadership Legacy Fellow Dayne Meakin and PE teacher, Bishop Walsh Catholic School writes.
Putting creativity at the heart of the curriculum
Tom Middlehurst, SSAT’s head of policy and public affairs, highlights some of the constructive and challenging contributions to come in December’s National Conference.
