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Term Times - spring 2025: The writing journey - Early Years and beyond

Writing is a complex skill developed from early childhood through interaction and physical activities that build language and motor skills. A strong curriculum is essential for developing confident and successful young writers. .
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Term Times - spring 2025: The secondary senior leaders' briefings

Introducing half-termly briefings for secondary senior leaders to help them stay updated with national and local educational changes, providing a concise and focused alternative to the overwhelming amount of information.
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Term Times - spring 2025: Digest

A summary of latest news on staff absence, reading fluency and joining the Making Fluent and Flexible Calculators EEF trial.
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Nursery World and QA Education Update

News
14 Feb 2025
Two of our talented team members, Jennifer Ferguson and Fiona Tobin, have recently published articles exploring themes of home visits for smoother transitions and the power of pedagogy when using EdTech. Wanting to find out more? Read on to discover the full articles.
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Creative ways to teach multiplication and division with beadstrings: One Hundred Hungry Ants activities

Blog
11 Feb 2025
Discover engaging multiplication and division activities using beadstrings and One Hundred Hungry Ants by Elinor J Pinczes. Fun learning in primary maths for World Book Day.
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Embracing flexible working – a governor’s guide (Part 1)

Blog
10 Feb 2025
This, and our next blog, will be focussed on supporting governors and trustees to explore the concept, challenges and benefits of flexible working in schools with a follow up focussed on taking action to embrace flexible leadership models when recruiting a headteacher.
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The Great School Framework

The Great School Framework
the great school framework

The Great School Framework - exceptional teaching learning assessment

The Great School Framework - exceptional teaching, learning and assessment.
the great school framework

The Great School Framework - curriculum

The Great School Framework - a rich, broad, balanced and bespoke curriculum.
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The Great School Framework - using the framework

How we envisage the Great School Framework being used.