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Blog: Prequestioning

18 September 2021

'Prequestioning can be an effective pedagogical strategy to support learning'. 'Whilst the well-documented positive effects of retrieval practice have quite rightly received a lot of attention in recent years, prequestioning seems…

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Guide for parents: transition to secondary school

25 June 2021

Supporting children's transition to secondary school is an evidence-based guidance for parents and carers, written with input from clinicians at the Anna Freud Centre and teachers. This short guide provides tips about how…

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Teacher feedback to improve pupil learning

17 June 2021

The Education Endowment Foundation has produced a guidance report containing six recommendations for using teacher feedback to improve pupil learning: Lay the foundations for effective feedback Deliver appropriately timed feedback…

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Ofsted: Geography research review published

17 June 2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsA8MZ14pDo Ofsted has published the fifth in a series of reviews into different subjects across the curriculum, and the latest looks at geography.    Click here to access the research review.…

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Second lockdown set learning loss back to the autumn

2 June 2021

Writing in TES, Amy Gibbons reports that the second full national lockdown at the start of the spring term regressed primary pupils' learning loss back to levels recorded at the start of the autumn…

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Ofsted’s RE research review published

24 May 2021

Ofsted has identified the key principles of teaching a ‘high-quality’ religious education (RE) curriculum in its latest research review. Reporting in Schools Week, James Carr has summarised the key pieces of advice. 1.…

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EEF blog: supporting science curriculum planning

7 May 2021

In a recent EEF blog, Dr. Kaiser introduces the new Best Evidence in Science Teaching (BEST) resources designed to support teachers with curriculum planning. She goes on to say that,…

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Ofsted: Research review series – science

4 May 2021

John Roberts, in TES reports that Ofsted has identifies the principles it says underpin a quality science education.  Through a study of existing research and literature, Ofsted says it has identified…

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Ofsted blog: History in outstanding primary schools

29 April 2021

Ofsted have recently published HMI Tim Jenner's blog where he discusses the findings from Ofsted's history subject inspections which took place between January and March 2020. Ofsted inspected the quality of…

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New EEF evaluation reports published

25 April 2021

The Education Endowment Foundation has recently published independent evaluations of five EEF-funded projects. Those that relate to primary education are listed below. Same Day Intervention (Updated): a programme aiming to improve maths…

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Sustaining parental engagement

19 March 2021

"We know that levels of parental engagement are consistently associated with children’s academic outcomes. Schools and parents have a shared interest in doing what is best for their children."  Many…

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A culture of improvement

15 March 2021

'The quality of teacher's working conditions has a clear, consistent relationship with student attainment that tentatively suggests a casual impact.'  The Teacher Development Trust have identified 5 key aspects of…

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