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  • Supporting pupils with SLCN – Part 2

    Supporting pupils with SLCN – Part 2

    This article was written for SecEd magazine and first published in January 2019.  You can read the original version on the SecEd website here.   You can access the full archive of my columns for SecEd here.  In the first part of this series last week (January 10), I asked the simple question: what does SLCN stand for? Read more

  • Supporting pupils with SLCN – Part 1

    Supporting pupils with SLCN – Part 1

    This article was written for SecEd magazine and first published in January 2019.  You can read the original version on the SecEd website here.   You can access the full archive of my columns for SecEd here.  Before you picked up this article, did you know what SLCN stood for? Don’t worry if not. I polled several secondary Read more

  • Leading PSHE – Part 2

    Leading PSHE – Part 2

    This article was written for SecEd magazine and first published in January 2019.  You can read the original version on the SecEd website here.   You can access the full archive of my columns for SecEd here.  In the first part of this article on leading PSHE, I recounted my own experiences as “Keeper of the Poisoned Chalice” Read more

  • Leading PSHE – Part 1

    Leading PSHE – Part 1

    This article was written for SecEd magazine and first published in January 2019.  You can read the original version on the SecEd website here.   You can access the full archive of my columns for SecEd here.  A few years into my teaching career, I was appointed head of PSHE in a large comprehensive school. I knew even Read more

  • Why the Pupil Premium doesn’t work and what we can do about it

    Why the Pupil Premium doesn’t work and what we can do about it

    This article was written for Children & Young People Now Magazine and first published in December 2018. If you have a subscription, you can read the full article on the CYP website. What is the Pupil Premium? One in four children in the UK grows up in poverty and the attainment gap between rich and poor is Read more

  • Working with teaching assistants

    Working with teaching assistants

    This article was written for SecEd magazine and first published in November 2018.  You can read the original version on the SecEd website here.   You can access the full archive of my columns for SecEd here.  This article was published as part of SecEd’s NQT special supplement in November 2018. During your teacher training you probably felt Read more

  • Best practice: Making sense of metacognition – Part 2

    Best practice: Making sense of metacognition – Part 2

    This article was written for SecEd Magazine.  This is part two of a two-part article. Read the first part here. In the first part of this article last week, I defined the terms “metacognition” and “self-regulation” and sought to explain what they look like in the classroom (Metacognition explained, SecEd, November 2018).I explained what pupils Read more

  • Best practice: Making sense of metacognition – Part 1

    Best practice: Making sense of metacognition – Part 1

    This article was written for SecEd Magazine. This is part one of a two-part article. You’re lucky. As a teacher today, you have access to a wealth of research evidence about what works in the classroom. But knowing what evidence to look at and what it means in practice remains a challenge – especially for Read more

  • SEND and school governance

    SEND and school governance

    This article was written for SecEd magazine and first published in November 2018.  You can read the original version on the SecEd website here.   You can access the full archive of my columns for SecEd here.  The foreword to the SEND Code of Practice (DfE, 2015) states that “Our vision for children with SEND (should be) the Read more

  • How to solve a problem like teacher retention – part 2

    How to solve a problem like teacher retention – part 2

    There’s a staffing crisis right now in England’s schools.  In part one of this blog I explained why this was the case.  I explained that pupil numbers were growing, that there were not enough new secondary school trainee teachers coming into the sector, and that we were losing too many experienced teachers from the profession. In June Read more

  • Curriculum matters: Part 7 – the language of learning

    Curriculum matters: Part 7 – the language of learning

    This article was written for SecEd magazine and first published in September 2018.  You can read the original version on the SecEd website here.   You can access the full archive of my columns for SecEd here.  This is the sixth instalment in a 7-part series. Read part one, part two, part three, part four, part five and part six. This Read more

  • Curriculum matters: Part 6 – making the KS3 curriculum count

    Curriculum matters: Part 6 – making the KS3 curriculum count

    This article was written for SecEd magazine and first published in September 2018.  You can read the original version on the SecEd website here.   You can access the full archive of my columns for SecEd here.  This is the sixth instalment in a 7-part series. Read part one, part two, part three, part four and part five. In last Read more

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