LeadingLearner

Transition: Keep the Learning Flowing

Ensuring curriculum continuity across Year 6 to 7 is a challenge; trying to establish a causal link to what has or hasn’t helped you be successful can be an even greater challenge.  Part of our vision in establishing a cross phase Trust was to try to ensure continuity in teaching and learning across the primary secondary divide; what should be a gap, over the summer holidays, can be a huge chasm. Continue reading →

No Graded Lesson Obs, No EM Grades; New Hope? #rEDYork

The presentation for ResearchEd in York was about key priorities; what’s your 9 or 10/10 and Why?  Sitting behind this idea about key priorities was the need to fundamentally re-culture our schools and how our priorities, what we spend our time on, had changed.

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DIY Review of Pupil Premium – Challenging C

This final part of DIY Pupil Premium Review focuses on the curriculum and careers & character; the latter could have equally been covered under A for Aspiration but I already had enough As. Continue reading →