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  • Improving Literacy and Oracy Outcomes: a MAT’s Story

    Improving Literacy and Oracy Outcomes: a MAT’s Story

    Shareen Wilkinson, Executive Director of Education at LEO Academy Trust, talks with Keira Moulding about LEO’s journey to improve literacy outcomes.

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  • AI and Literacy: How AI can enhance reader engagement

    AI and Literacy: How AI can enhance reader engagement

    Pickatale’s Sigbjørn Dugal and Emily Guille-Marrett spoke to Sam Derby about how AI can enhance reader engagement and literacy.

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  • Making Change: A Greener Curriculum

    Making Change: A Greener Curriculum

    Sustainability subject expert Claire Gilbert talks with Paul Turner from the teacher collective, Ministry of Eco Education and Jamie Agombar from the student-driven Students Organising for Sustainability UK about the outlook for climate education in the curriculum review.

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  • The Industry View: Education Stakeholders Must Be at the Heart of Reform

    The Industry View: Education Stakeholders Must Be at the Heart of Reform

    Peter Doyle is Policy Manager at BESA. Here he provides an industry perspective on the curriculum review.

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  • The Curriculum and Assessment Review: What the Experts Want to See

    The Curriculum and Assessment Review: What the Experts Want to See

    For issue 5 of Education Insights, we spoke to 13 education stakeholders about their ambitions and aspirations for England’s curriculum and assessment review.

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  • Empowering children to look after our planet: my journey supporting St Swithun’s Primary School on its sustainability journey, September 2022–April 2023

    Empowering children to look after our planet: my journey supporting St Swithun’s Primary School on its sustainability journey, September 2022–April 2023

    This is the third in a four-part blog series, Sustainability in Education, written by our Head of People and Operations, Claire Gilbert.

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  • “Make no mistake that the metaverse is coming”: the metaverse and what it could mean for children, teachers and schools

    “Make no mistake that the metaverse is coming”: the metaverse and what it could mean for children, teachers and schools

    The metaverse is an important buzzword in 2022, but what could it mean for education? And how does it translate into the practical experience in the classroom and home for students of today and tomorrow?

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  • Teaching primary science in lockdown: a classroom teacher’s perspective

    Teaching primary science in lockdown: a classroom teacher’s perspective

    In Part Two of this two-part blog on teaching primary science in lockdown, we hear from Ben Keith, a KS2 classroom teacher.

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  • Teaching primary science in lockdown: a science specialist’s perspective

    Teaching primary science in lockdown: a science specialist’s perspective

    In Part One of this two-part blog on teaching primary science in lockdown, we hear from Jules Pottle, a KS2 science specialist.

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  • Putting sustainability at the heart of school life

    Putting sustainability at the heart of school life

    Our Sustainability in Education blog series is created by our Head of Operations Claire Gilbert, who has recently been certified Carbon Literate. Part two takes us back to the classroom, learning from our Classroom Expert and award winning eco-coordinator Edd Moore about the impact the children have made at his school and beyond.

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  • SEND review: What’s the impact in schools?

    SEND review: What’s the impact in schools?

    Our SEND Classroom Expert Sophie Hill shares her view on the SEND review currently open for consultation.

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  • Celebrating a decade of one of the UK’s largest digital programmes with EdTech pioneer Greg Hughes

    Celebrating a decade of one of the UK’s largest digital programmes with EdTech pioneer Greg Hughes

    Our EdTech Classroom Expert Greg Hughes shares how he implemented a tech revolution at his school and trust.

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