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Budget setting and outsourcing in a multi-academy trust – key considerations and the importance of a three year plan.

The experience of being Chair of the school or academy board can best be summed up by the three letters AOB – despite the best laid plans it’s the unexpected items that make the job challenging, unpredictable and occasionally exciting and rewarding.

Leading up to a special focus on reading fluency and the outcomes of our collaboration with the EEF, Kathy Roe brings shares the current picture for the HfL reading Fluency Project.

Martin Galway offers a comprehensive overview of reading fluency and some extensive pointers to further reading.

Penny Slater, Education Development and Partnership Lead (Primary English Specialist) shares some class-based exploration of reading fluency.

Ben Fuller explores what we know (and what we don’t yet know) about KS2 and KS4 progress measures this summer.

Despite constantly saying that there is no silver bullet out there, I know that many wonder whether it is just that they have not found it …yet. 

In this series of blogs, Penny Slater takes an in-depth look at the 2019 reading SATs paper and draws out some key points for reflection.

In this series of blogs, Penny Slater takes an in-depth look at the 2019 reading SATs paper and draws out some key points for reflection.

One of the most fundamental learning theories to be implemented within any mastery classroom is the ‘CPA’ (Concrete, Pictorial, and Abstract) approach. It was first proposed by Jerome Bruner in 1966 as a means of scaffolding learning.