Everybody reading this will, I am sure, have heard of the School Improvement Plan – but let me ask you 2 questions….

Everybody reading this will, I am sure, have heard of the School Improvement Plan – but let me ask you 2 questions….
All Primary Schools will have a Senior Leadership team or Senior Management team as they are sometimes called.
So how are they comprised and what is their purpose?
I was visiting a school a few days ago and at lunchtime noticed that there was a football club being held. The coach was from a commercial company and he came with all the equipment and the club ran for about 40 minutes.
Golden time in Primary schools – what is it, when is it and how does it operate?
The subject of testing has and always will be a contentious one. The new head of OFSTED has stated that she doesn’t think that our children are tested too much. This might be “officially correct” – however in the climate created by OFSTED, the pressure on schools has created a “testing epidemic!”
Following on from yesterdays post we are going to try to find a way through the “minefield” that is being a CORE subject coordinator.
In this article I am going to look at the role of the subject coordinator for CORE subjects.
If you have never done so, then try giving your class a general knowledge quiz – no not with curriculum questions, rather with questions regarding the world about them.
Today we consider school libraries – do all schools still have them and are they still needed or indeed relevant?
Schools have closed for the Christmas break – the nativity has been performed, Christmas gifts made in art lessons for parents and grandparents and the carol service went without a hitch.