Headteacher Update

Our weekly Headteacher Update Bulletin is out now! Improving pupil #oracy skills (podcast) – Transforming school food with Chefs in Schools – The Real Food Rebellion – Sensory processing disorder explained #SendTips – Attitudes to reading #literacy & more: https://lnkd.in/e8yJWX_N #education #schools #headteachers

Ultra-processed foods & a real food rebellion: What is on the menu in your canteen? Are you doing all you can to eliminate ultra-processed foods? George Winter finds out about a new education project from Public Health Collaboration seeking to inspire schools to act: https://buff.ly/4et16yh

Headteacher Update Podcast: This episode focuses on how we can teach #oracy & #speaking skills in the primary classroom & across the school – with lots of advice, tips & examples from our experts Topsy Page – Tenisha Jones-Davis – nicola romaine & Maxine Low https://buff.ly/3XLsnVH

Headteacher Update Podcast: Our new episode produced in partnership with Pearson focuses on how we can teach #oracy & #speaking skills in the primary school, with lots of #teaching ideas, practical tips, tried & tested examples & useful resources https://buff.ly/3XLsnVH #literacy #education #schools #teachers

One school's food revolution: What do your pupils eat at lunch & what impact does it have on them? Headteacher Hilary Priest explains the Chefs in Schools journey that has revolutionised the quality of meals & so much more at The Grove Primary https://buff.ly/4dxOkNE #schools #education

Headteacher Update Bulletin is out! One school's flexible timetables in action (case study) – #Oracy in the maths classroom – Revisiting the #Ofsted maths review – launch of a new #SEND interventions database – leading interventions & more: https://lnkd.in/epFcnNPw #teachers #headteachers #teaching #education #schools

Everyone is talking about #oracy & #teaching the vital skills of speech, discussion, and conversation. In this article, Lydia Davison considers what this might look like in the primary school #maths classroom: https://buff.ly/4dhxQsP Oxford University Press

If a teacher’s lesson is going well, why can’t they keep going? Or if pupils are not responding, why can’t they stop? At Kensington Primary School they can. Ben Levinson OBE explains their flexible timetable approach: https://buff.ly/4dcscZ6 #teachers #teaching #schools #headteachers #education

Performance-related pay – is this the end? Schools are no longer expected to link pay to the performance of #teachers thanks to the Workload Reduction Taskforce. But what are primary school leaders planning to do now? We take a look: https://buff.ly/4gMo59g #teaching

A year ago, the @Ofstednews #mathematics subject review warned that the poor recall of addition & subtraction facts at key stage 1 could be holding back learners. Ben Harding offers an eight-point self-evaluation checklist for #teachers: https://buff.ly/3ZCk94G #schools #education