On the 12th November the DfE updated two statutory guidance documents – What maintained schools must publish on line and what academies and free schools must publish on line. There are some new additions plus a number of significant amendments. Your school website is a really important asset for your school. It informs the wider school community of all the wonderful things that are happening on a day-to-day basis. During …

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I am very aware that the first priority for all school staff is to look after their health and wellbeing and to ensure that their students are also safe and well.  In addition to this teachers have embraced technology to teach, support and monitor daily lessons and activities to try and keep teaching and learning as effective as possible during these challenging times. We have been given some indication about …

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The Standards and Curriculum Agency have now published all the key documents you will need to support both teacher assessment and statutory assessment in 2020. Pupils who are working below expected standard at the end of KS1 and KS2 are referred to in many of these documents. In this blog I have tried to capture the key messages to enable schools to support this group of pupils in the most …

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