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Thursday

13th Nov 2025

How enrichment helped our trust improve attendance
By introducing four new core sports across its 20 schools, Redhill Academy Trust bolstered attendance, with a particular benefit for disadvantaged pupils. Ellen Peirson-Hagger hears how it did it
rowing boat on water

Tuesday

11th Nov 2025

Is New Zealand’s ‘stuctured maths’ set to transform maths scores?
New Zealand is reforming its approach to teaching maths with a model inspired by the success of ‘structured literacy’. But are the methods really so revolutionary? Holly Korbey investigates
Child climbing blocks

Friday

7th Nov 2025

How to get instructional coaching right
Instructional coaching can be a powerful form of teacher CPD, write Gareth Conyard and Jim Knight – but only if lethal mutations are avoided
Instructional coaching for teachers: schools need to take care to get it right, say these experts

Tuesday

4th Nov 2025

Becky Francis: How we reached our curriculum recommendations
In an exclusive interview, curriculum and assessment review lead Becky Francis speaks to Tes about its recommendations and the evidence underpinning them
Becky Francis

Thursday

30th Oct 2025

How a trust-made toolkit is helping to raise reading levels
A ‘less is more’ reading toolkit that can be used with pupils of any age is having a significant impact in schools in the North West, writes Maddy Barnes
Montage of 'strands'

Wednesday

29th Oct 2025

Is Portugal our guiding light for inclusion?
Portugal’s school system has been hailed as a model of inclusive education. But, with England moving towards greater inclusion in mainstream, is it a blueprint we should follow? Zofia Niemtus investigates
Lisbon Portugal

Thursday

23rd Oct 2025

How to lead without burnout: strategies for middle leaders
Being a head of department can be one of the most rewarding but also draining jobs in school, writes Mark Enser, who shares advice on how to avoid burning out
Burnt matchstick man

Wednesday

22nd Oct 2025

Is ‘didagogy’ the key to better CPD for teachers?
The study of how teachers learn is unique enough to need its own terminology, finds a new report – and that has implications for how we understand teacher training and CPD
Speech bubble jigsaw

Tuesday

21st Oct 2025

Why the Francis review cannot become your curriculum template
The curriculum and assessment review should give schools permission to create an offer that truly delivers all a child needs, argues Liz Robinson
Curriculum study

Thursday

16th Oct 2025

Facing tragedy: how a Southport school community came together
On 29 July 2024 pupils from Churchtown Primary were victims of an attack at a holiday club in Southport. Here, trust leaders reflect on how their community pulled together in the year that followed
Kate reading

Wednesday

15th Oct 2025

Sami Timimi: Why ‘invented’ SEND labels are disabling pupils
Diagnostic labels are medicalising young people for behaviours once considered ordinary and are contributing to unsustainable workload in schools, argues psychiatrist Sami Timimi
Sami Timimi

Tuesday

14th Oct 2025

Curriculum reform must focus on engagement, not just attainment
Looking at how Chicago turned around its struggling schools offers insights into how the curriculum review could unlock transformation here, says trust CEO Becks Boomer-Clark
Becks Boomer-Clark