Learn the Lingo: Your A-Z guide to teaching terms and acronyms

Do you know your EHCP from your EYFS? What about SENCO, SLC and TA? Let’s be honest, the education sector can be a minefield for abbreviations and acronyms. School life has a language and vocabulary all of its own and some things can get lost in translation. We’ve put together a

History untold: Diversifying the history curriculum in schools

From September 2022, Wales will be the first UK nation to make teaching of black, Asian and minority ethnic histories mandatory in the school curriculum. With growing calls for England to follow its lead, Hannah Fowler explores the current history curriculum and the importance of representation in the classroom. “If this

The Virtual School

The pandemic brought devastation and disruption across the world and with it, businesses and educational institutions were forced to bring everything online with virtual schools. With just two days’ notice, schools, colleges and universities were told they must go from traditional face-to-face learning to remote education – something that was

State school teachers lack funding for careers guidance, says charity

Just under a third of teachers in state schools say they do not have enough funding to deliver quality careers guidance to their pupils, compared with 6% of private school teachers, a new report shows.  The paper from social mobility charity, the Sutton Trust, found that 32% of state school teachers

For the Love of Libraries

“The more that you read, the more you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you will go.” So said Dr. Seuss. A recent study by the National Literacy Trust (NLT), however, suggests that children are in danger of missing out on the magic of reading due to