Life Lessons
Life Lessons are delighted to provide a range of resources to support schools mark Black History Month, including a free webinar for PSHE leads and videos and resources to use in lessons.
Blog posts by Guest
Back to School: Embracing a New Chapter
In this first article in our new series by Ndah Mbawa from Happier Every Chapter, Ndah reflects upon the themes and inclusive bestsellers they curated at the start of the academic year.
From a council estate in Tower Hamlets, to studying English at Oxford: how Zero Gravity helped to unleash Fiona Zeka’s potential
Born to Kosovan refugees who moved to the UK with limited resources, Fiona knew that getting to Oxford University was far from a done deal.
Nip in the Bud: Learning about children’s mental health through film
The mental health awareness charity Nip in the Bud works with professionals to produce FREE online short films and fact sheets to help primary school teachers, parents and others working with children to recognise potential mental health conditions.
Arts Bytes
Arts bytes is a national EdTech programme that utilises a bespoke, immersive, virtual gallery to offer young participants the opportunity to see their art exhibited online.
Embedding Formative Assessment – Year Two, a new but familiar journey
At Shireland Collegiate Academy, we have come to the end of our two year Embedding Formative Assessment Programme. At the end of our first year, we saw that teachers valued the programme and could see a difference in their classrooms when being consistent with the use of whole class response systems; embedded use of WALTs and WILFs; and a school-wide ‘no hands up’ strategy.
SeeAbility – the power of sight testing in special schools
Did you know that children with a learning disability are 28 times more likely than children without a learning disability, to have a serious sight problem?
OxWell Student Survey for Non-Mainstream Schools
The 2023 OxWell Student Survey for non-mainstream schools (specialising in SEN) is now live and will run from June to December 2023.
What is the collective noun for a group of mavericks?
Sitting in my office writing this article feels rather surreal. This is likely to be my last piece that I write for SSAT. Earlier in the year I was interviewed for a book on leadership. The author asked me about my style.
Reading our way to diversity
May 2020 was a defining moment for the world: the injustice of George Floyd’s death precipitated protests across the world for racial inequalities at the core of society, inequalities that rested in the very institutions that were supposed to underpin social justice.
