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Children and young people’s reading in 2024

10 November 2024

In a new report, the National Literacy Trust (NLT) highlights the declining number of young people reading for pleasure. In 2024, the percentage of children and young people who told the…

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The power of storytelling and reading aloud in Primary

1 November 2024

Join this free twilight webinar on reading in Primary with Matthew Courtney. In this webinar, Matthew will draw upon the EEF Literacy Guidance Reports and wider educational research to explore…

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School-Based Nursery Capital Grant

31 October 2024

The School-Based Nursery Capital Grant is a one-time grant available for eligible state-funded primary-phase schools. Schools can bid for up to £150,000 of funding to use solely for capital expenditure,…

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How the budget will impact schools

30 October 2024

In today's budget, Rachel Reeves, the Chancellor of the Exchequer announced an increase to the core school's budget which is a real terms growth of 1.8 per cent. Below are 5…

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Curriculum and Assessment Review regional roadshow

21 October 2024

The Curriculum and Assessment Review will look closely at the barriers which hold children back from the life chances they deserve and ensure curriculum and assessment is cutting edge, fit…

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Changes to Ofsted’s ungraded inspections webinar

3 October 2024

In this webinar, inspectors discuss Ofsted's new approach to ungraded inspections from September 2024. They explain: - the changes that have been made and why they have made them -…

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Ofsted’s autumn update webinar available

30 September 2024

In their autumn update webinar, hosted live on 19th September 2024, inspectors provided an outline of Ofsted's updates to the school inspection handbook for maintained schools and academies. This included…

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DfE: Curriculum and Assessment Review

26 September 2024

The DfE are seeking views from stakeholders to share their perspective on potential improvements to the curriculum and assessment system. Spanning from Key Stage 1 through to Key Stage 5,…

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Mental health and wellbeing calendar – Autumn 2024

5 September 2024

Anna Freud's Mentally Health Schools team has created a calendar of curriculum themes and occasions linked to mental health for the 2024 autumn term, with activity ideas and free resources…

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Family Numeracy Programme

17 July 2024

The Department for Education is inviting schools to take part in a trial starting in January 2025. The Family Numeracy trial will test the impact of delivering maths aligned to…

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Unfilled primary places soar as falling rolls crisis spreads

4 July 2024

The number of areas with more than one in five spare primary school places is set to treble next year as the falling rolls crisis spreads. Last year, 11 councils…

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Review of the RSHE statutory guidance

1 July 2024

The DfE are seeking views on changes to the relationships, sex and health education statutory guidance. Respond by 11th July 2024. The DfE want to hear your views on proposed…

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