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World Maths Day is almost here! 

17 March 2025

The world’s largest online mathematics competition returns on 26 March 2025, bringing together over 10 million students from 150+ countries to connect and compete, getting a chance to win fantastic prizes! …

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Promoting healthy friendships in school

6 January 2025

Healthy friendships are crucial for children’s self-esteem, belonging, and success in school and life. Positive relationships improve attendance, academic performance, and overall wellbeing. Children learn relationship skills early at home,…

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Schools bill: proposed policies

4 January 2025

The government’s new schools bill will dominate education policymaking for the next few years, before changes start to feed into classrooms across the country from 2026 onwards. New teachers in academies…

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The Big Conversation Podcast

3 January 2025

The Big Conversation: In conversation with the Children’s Commissioner and her youth Ambassadors is my podcast series where she share the voices and views of England’s children.  The podcast draws…

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Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill, introduced to Parliament

2 January 2025

The Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill, introduced to Parliament on 17th December 2024, prioritises children’s welfare in government policy. Central to the government’s Plan for Change, the Bill aims to…

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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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