Look around your class: how resilient are the pupils sitting in front of you? How creative are they? How good are they at...
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Read more Should Sats tests return – or be abandoned forever? Loren Tharme at Ocean Academy & 3 other leaders give their verdicts to TESAre those who call themselves perfectionists actually perfectionists? Or are perfectionists, or "Be Perfects", often muddled up with "Try Hards" – a very different...
Read more Can you spot the differences between a ‘Be Perfect’ student and a ‘Try Hard’? Being able to tell them apart could transform lessonsExpansion is a serious decision for all MATs, and making the right call is critical to ensure the success of all existing schools...
Read more Steve & Paula Kenning decided to grow Aspirations after meeting Ian Livingstone CBE. Here are the tough questions that had to be answered…The end of this school year isn't like a normal one, for students or staff.
Read more Year 11s after TAGs? Luke Homer at Rivers Academy reveals why the focus will be on ‘bridging the gap to the next stage’Funding is now available for summer schools, but how will leaders be organising them? Grainne Hallahan finds out in this Tes article.
Read more Covid catch-up: What will summer schools look like? Atlantic Academy Portland will focus on a ‘community feel’The pessimistic message of 'catch-up' needs to be avoided in school. One leader explains how they tackled this through staff training.
Read more ‘Words create worlds’: Annie Witcher at Rivers reveals the 4 ways a whole-school approach has avoided negative ‘catch-up’ talkWith World Book Day falling during lockdown in England, schools have had to come up with innovative ideas to celebrate.
Read more World Book Day 2021: Find out how schools, including Oak Hill Academy, are celebrating in this TES articleProviding great CPD is the key to teacher recruitment and retention according to Steve and Paula Kenning, CEOs of the Aspirations Academies Trust...
Read more Aspirations CEOs Steve & Paula Kenning discuss power of CPD as Tes Global launches largest online platform for teacher development