Monthly Archives: June 2022

The attainment gap between independent and state schools has widened more than ever since the start of the pandemic. Continued here: https://ift.tt/XNDKm1s

This year, Attainment 8 will (once again) be calculated differently to previous years. We look at this impact this might have. Continued here: https://ift.tt/QVEHZSK

The government proposed new national thresholds for legal intervention due to absence from school last week. We take a look at how many pupils would have been affected in the Spring term if they had… Continued here: https://ift.tt/oCUZadv

A report evaluating the impact of joining Royal National Children’s Springboard Foundation’s Partner Referral Scheme on Key Stage 5 outcomes between 2015/16 and 2019/20. Continued here: https://ift.tt/2Tzs9Rt

How do you teach a tricky new word, or seek to boost the word hoard of the pupils you teach? One of the most common approaches to developing academic vocabulary is to study morphology –… Continued here: https://ift.tt/h6Lqaj0

6,400 young people were in local authority commissioned alternative provision outside of schools and colleges in January 2021. Continued here: https://ift.tt/7at3rOA

We round up the key points from new research investigating whether GCSE grades are lower amongst pupils who suffer from high levels of test anxiety. Continued here: https://ift.tt/eT3EaVQ

Apart from the sanitation, the medicine, wine, public order, roads, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us? Well, they taught us how best to teach writing. Not a week goes by when… Continued here: https://ift.tt/AFGETo0

Not only is physics graded more severely than other subjects at A level, students who take it often do so alongside other severely graded subjects. Continued here: https://ift.tt/4xFI1kE

Originally posted on fish64:
I contributed to lessons for Oak Academy. We were under huge time pressure and although there was proofreading, some errors crept in. Most of them are minor things such as spellings. I cringed when I looked…