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DfE recommends 2.8% teacher pay rise for 2025-26

12 December 2024

The DfE’s evidence to the School Teachers’ Review Body states that a 2.8 per cent award for 2025-26 would “maintain the competitiveness of teachers’ pay despite the challenging financial backdrop the government…

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Headteacher Update Podcast: Executive school leadership

11 December 2024

In this podcast episode we take a deep dive into the different roles and models of executive primary school leadership, looking at best practice and how executive leaders can best…

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Podcast: Effective teacher recruitment & retention in schools

9 November 2024

In this episode Headteacher Update look at the recruitment and retention of teachers in the primary school, including how to attract the best teachers to your school and ideas and…

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Climate action support for schools

5 November 2024

Is your school looking for support to become zero carbon? Let’s Go Zero is the national campaign uniting teachers, pupils, parents and their schools as they all work together to…

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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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Improve your school open day

18 October 2024

First impressions are hugely important. Get these wrong and parents won’t bother attending your school open day. An unfriendly response to enquiries will be enough to put people off before…

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‘Parachute payments’ could help schools cope with falling rolls

13 October 2024

New “parachute payments” could help protect schools from the financial implications of falling rolls, a report has proposed. Primary pupil numbers have been dropping nationally since 2019, and secondary numbers are…

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Leading change and interventions in schools podcast

7 October 2024

This Headteacher Update podcast looks at how schools and school leaders can lead change and make sure new approaches, interventions or improvement practices have the biggest possible impact, drawing on…

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Assessment and reporting arrangements 2024/25

4 October 2024

The Standards and Testing Agency (STA) has released the guidance for the assessment and reporting arrangements for the phonics screening check and key stage 2 tests for this academic year.…

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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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