The strategies that enabled us to close the disadvantage gap
Karl Robbins, Head of Year 11 at Broadway Academy, describes the strategies identified and implemented to close the gap in disadvantaged students’ GCSE results.
Blog posts by Guest
Enabling children to succeed in an area of high deprivation and unemployment
Jon Tait, Deputy Head at Acklam Grange School, highlights the skills, values, experience and qualifications attainable through the school’s services and curriculum.
Professional artists help pupil premium students to shine
Rosemary Osborne, lead practitioner and Apple teacher, Eltham Hill School, showcases creative teaching methods used to engage with hard-to-reach students and its outcomes on attainment.
Samaritans work to support the whole school community
This year’s World Mental Health Day focuses on suicide prevention. Precious Jeffers, Community Outreach Manager at Samaritans, illustrates the charity’s work towards the same cause.
Why schools might be cautiously optimistic going into the new year
As the new term unfolds, Wrigleys Solicitors analyse the budget realisations made by the government and the hopeful changes that will come with it.
The impacts of peer teaching on learning
Catherine Miller, programme director for Team Up, highlights the profound impacts that peer teaching has on pupils who need extra support.
Lifting off to secondary education
Martina Veale, Education Director at ASDAN, describes one school’s experience in making the daunting transition from primary to secondary school a smooth one.
Introduce the Learn Equality, Live Equal programme to help tackle HBT bullying
The Learn Equality, Live Equal Team of the National Children’s Bureau (NCB) highlights the ways in which the Learn Equality, Live Equal programme is helping schools combat homophobic, biphobic and transphobic (HBT) bullying.
The unity of community: Parliament Hill School’s journey
Marie Ruddy, team leader for Citizenship, discusses the inclusive environment that Parliament Hill School has created to encourage every student to feel comfortable in their own skin.
Make reading a choice, not a chore
Sarah Masters, Curriculum Librarian, Thomas Deacon Academy, highlights the importance of staying connected to literature even when schools close for the summer.
