Category Archives: teaching

What’s on the horizon in 2025/26? As the summer sun begins to fade and we prepare to open our school gates again, the 2025/26 academic year comes into view – not just as a date in the diary, but as a critical juncture for education.  This coming year, we will have to navigate a shiftingContinue reading “A school leaders’ guide to 2025/26: Leadership and governance”

This is an edited version of an article that appeared in The Yorkshire Post on 26 August 2025 in which Matt Bromley argues that a six-week summer break might be too long… Towards the end of July, the school bell tolls one last time and the six weeks of summer stretch out like vast golden beaches. AlthoughContinue reading “Are the summer holidays too long?”

What’s on the horizon in 2025/26? As the summer sun begins to fade and we prepare to open our school gates again, the 2025/26 academic year comes into view – not just as a date in the diary, but as a critical juncture for education.  This coming year, we will have to navigate a shiftingContinue reading “A school leaders’ guide to 2025/26: Curriculum and assessment reforms”

What’s on the horizon in 2025/26? As the summer sun begins to fade and we prepare to open our school gates again, the 2025/26 academic year comes into view – not just as a date in the diary, but as a critical juncture for education.  This coming year, we will have to navigate a shiftingContinue reading “A school leaders’ guide to 2025/26”

This is an edited version of an article that appeared in The Yorkshire Post on 12 August 2025 in which Matt Bromley argues that equality, diversity, and inclusion ensure every learner is given the tools to succeed… Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion – EDI – are not optional extras in education; they are essential foundations for creating schoolsContinue reading “EDI provides the foundations of effective schools”

This is an edited version of an article that appeared in The Yorkshire Post on 2 August 2025 in which Matt Bromley analyses the features of a good beach read… My wife and I are taking the kids to Egypt this summer for an all-inclusive. I used to scoff at the idea of lazing by a pool,Continue reading “Summer reading had me a blast”

Data published by the Department for Education today (Friday 8 August 2025) suggests schools in England are starting to see the green shoots of recovery with regards pupil attendance. Absence rates spiked after the Covid-19 lockdowns during which most learners were schooled at home, and rates have remained stubbornly high since, especially at secondary school.Continue reading “School attendance: The green shoots of recovery?”

This article was first published in SecEd Magazine on 9 July 2025 Matt Bromley has been writing for SecEd Magazine since 2012 and is their most prolific and popular contributor. Here, he looks back over their best practice archive and counts down the top 10 most-read articles… Recently, the award-winning SecEd Podcast clocked up itsContinue reading “The best of SecEd”

Is creativity a dying art in the English classroom? In a recent Let’s Talk English blog for Pearson Schools, Matt Bromley delved into this question and provided his five top tips on how English teachers can harness creativity in the classroom. Read the original blog on the Pearson website. I remember the first lesson I ever taught.Continue reading “Embedding creativity in the English classroom”

This is an edited version of an article that appeared in The Yorkshire Post on 25 July 2025 in which Matt Bromley argues that the recent spending review didn’t go far enough… In her spending review on 11 June, the chancellor Rachel Reeves announced that free school meals (FSM) would be extended to all childrenContinue reading “Pupil Premium funding needs a boost”