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Take Stock and Unlock - the CPD programme that helped transform my literacy strategy

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Take Stock and Unlock - the CPD programme that helped transform my literacy strategy

Stephanie Welsford, Senior Deputy Headteacher at Villiers High School, explains how Unlocking Reading allowed for a re-set in literacy strategy

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A whole new marking system

Posted by: Dawn Copping, Posted on: 23 February 2016 - Categories: Reducing teacher workload
Dawn Copping, Chair of the Marking and Policy Review Group

Shaw Primary Academy in Thurrock implemented a new marking system that allowed teachers to check every book quickly and efficiently. Headteacher Dawn Copping outlines the straightforward changes she introduced to eliminate the need for teachers to mark books at home. …

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Trialling new marking strategies

Posted by: Emma Thom, Posted on: 23 February 2016 - Categories: Reducing teacher workload

Plantsbrook School in the West Midlands has recently piloted a new marking strategy to help ensure that students are given high quality feedback. Deputy Headteacher Emma Thom explains how the new strategy is helping support teachers’ work-life balance.

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Closing the gap: test and learn

Posted by: anishaw, Posted on: 2 November 2015 - Categories: School-led research

...The early adopter project is part of the national Closing the gap: test and learn programme, which is testing school and classroom approaches to improving pupil attainment. One aim of...

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