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Pupils can experience a dip in attainment following the move from primary to secondary. To tackle this, some Scottish local authorities appointed specialist ‘transition teachers’ to help bridge the gap, as Emma Seith discovered in March 2019

Even in a profession in which most staff are women, the menopause has been a persistent workplace taboo. In June 2019, Emma Seith looked at how bringing it out into the open in schools can provide a huge relief for those suffering the symptoms in silence

Kingussie High motivated students by enabling them to study the subjects they were interested in – and the results spoke for themselves. In October 2018, Emma Seith spoke to outgoing head Ollie Bray about why all school leaders should take more advantage of the breadth of qualifications on offer

Permanent exclusions north of the border had been all but wiped out in February 2020, and yet they were on the rise elsewhere. Scotland looked to have set an example for the rest of the UK – but, as Emma Seith found, the statistics might not have told the full story

The annual Denny High School zombie run – an immersive event in which students are pursued through a post-apocalyptic wasteland – had become a morale-boosting rite of passage. In December 2019, Henry Hepburn travelled
to Denny to witness a nightmarish race against the living dead

Emma Seith revisits a Tes Scotland report from 2018 about e-Sgoil, the online school that was set up to provide pupils in isolated communities with a wider choice of subjects while also offering much-needed flexibility for teachers – and that has gone on to prove itself invaluable as a model and resource during the Covid pandemic

Debates about the best ways to teach children to read have raged in education for years. On 15 June 2018, three researchers, Kate Nation, Kathleen Rastle and Anne Castles, turned to evidence from psychological science in an attempt to cut through the divisive rhetoric

In May 2017, Kat Arney found that AI has the potential to transform the way we view education, how teachers teach and how everyone in schools behaves – for better and for worse

Developmental language disorder (DLD) is likely to affect children in every school. But, as Adi Bloom found in 2018, few teachers had even heard of this common special educational need

Three years ago, more young people than ever were turning to charities for help with anxiety – and school stress was blamed as one of the root causes. In May 2018, Kat Arney set out to get to the bottom of the problem – and find out how worried we should be

Worries about work can spoil your Christmas – here, one teacher shares the lessons he’s learned when they’ve consumed him

Engaging with children’s authors takes time and effort – but it pays off in the classroom, argues Larraine Harrison