Blog posts by Guest

Waj Mohammed a student at New Bridge Multi Academy Trust was one of a number of students who participated in a visit to Chicago earlier this year to work with American students and Apple to design apps. The work is part of an ongoing project funded via the Turing scheme. Read Waj’s blog and watch the film produced by the group.

The Romsey School share some reflections and practical advice on support for looked after children. After taking on a new role with responsibility for looked after children, Gabrielle Bradbeer undertook research in order to better understand the needs of looked after children and to gauge levels of awareness and knowledge amongst her colleagues. She shares the practical strategies that they have implemented.

Beatrice Merrick, CEO at Early Education, considers the importance of keeping the principle of the ‘unique child’ front and centre when navigating current challenges for Early Years pupils and will be exploring this further at later this month as a keynote speaker.

Maeve Quinn of The Douay Martyrs Catholic Secondary School uncovers the crucial aspects of metacognition and how they can be applied to any educational environment, to improve the ways learners monitor and purposefully direct their learning

In January this year, Lyfta launched their first ever CPD course on diversity, equity and inclusion. In this blog Anna Szpakowska, Professional Development Lead at Lyfta, shares the insights that were unearthed about how best to lead courageous conversations about race.

St John The Baptist School, Woking Over the last six years SJB has focused on developing and implementing a mastery approach for teachers to support their move towards a mastery curriculum. Through their work researching and trialling strategies for a
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Falinge Park School investigates the complexities of ‘honour-based’ violence and to develop training around ‘honour-based’ abuse and violence (HBAV) and raising awareness.

A year 8 student from Comberton Village College explains how a project to make heating the school more sustainable has been good for the environment and good for learning. The Ground Source Heat Pump (GSHP) project is a big step
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Carl Taylor, Lead Teacher of Psychology at Invicta Grammar School explains in this blog how coaching was introduced in the school, and why the culture of coaching needs to make its appearance within the education sector.