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Using formative assessment to support student resilience
By Natasha Arain, Assessment Lead, and Mark Frazer, Teaching and Learning Lead Resilience (or the ability to ‘bounce back’) is a valuable trait that...
Wellbeing (2)
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How well do we understand wellbeing?
Research in an extraordinary educational era 2020/21 has been a year like no other. The COVID-19 pandemic has had an unprecedented impact on all of...
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Assessment & Teacher Wellbeing
I left teaching because there were ten-year-old children in tears over the SATs in my class. There were several other reasons why I walked away, but...
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The unintended consequences of pursuing an ‘outstanding’
Although I now have the luxury of not being accountable to Ofsted, for ten years as a primary headteacher I attempted to navigate the shifting sands...