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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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  • How a role as a school governor can complement your work in the education industry

    How a role as a school governor can complement your work in the education industry

    In this interview with Oriel Square Publishing Delivery Leader and school governor Lyn Roberts, we discuss how working with a local school gives her an insider view of education that supports her work at Oriel Square.

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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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  • 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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  • The big picture: ELT in the MENA region

    The big picture: ELT in the MENA region

    With mixed-ability classes and a patchwork of British, American and other varieties of English being delivered, teaching ELT in the primary classroom poses plenty of challenges. Not to mention the wide variety of contexts across the MENA region.

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  • Spotlight on… primary literacy

    Spotlight on… primary literacy

    It’s a huge privilege being able to work on a book that might be the very first book that a child reads for themselves. Just because it’s a school book, it doesn’t mean that it shouldn’t look great or be interesting and enjoyable to read.

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  • Get into Primary English publishing

    Get into Primary English publishing

    Many publishers start their journey with a love of reading, but few end up working on books that might be the very first book that a child reads for themselves. Editorial Manager Liz explains her love of Primary English publishing and shares what she’s learnt in ten years in the industry.

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  • Teacher training: Putting the past behind us

    Teacher training: Putting the past behind us

    Whatever training route is chosen, it needs trainees. A lack of graduates willing to become teachers has posed a threat to children’s education over the past few years and has become an important issue for the school sector. John Howson looks at teacher training, supply and retention in a post-Covid world.*

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  • Teacher Tapp data – answers in uncertain times

    Teacher Tapp data – answers in uncertain times

    As the UK’s Covid-19 crisis has escalated over the past fortnight, Teacher Tapp has been uniquely placed to find out what teachers are really thinking about.

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