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This week’s issue of Tes coincides with Mental Health Awareness Week – so what better time to remind ourselves that there’s no one way of improving wellbeing

When a child worries about finding reading hard, they may struggle to focus – and concerned parents can sometimes add to the stress, finds Megan Dixon

Pastoral support officer Rahi Popat wanted to boost the wellbeing of students and staff, so he instigated a whole-school fitness regime that aims to harness the power of exercise as a preventative tool to ward off mental health issues – with notable improvements in behaviour, attendance and overall happiness

All this talk of getting students back on track after the pandemic fails to take into account those children who made good progress with their studies despite the disruption, says Janina Stromfield

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Shadow education secretary says the education secretary is focusing on the ‘wrong priorities’ following the impact of the pandemic

Former boarding school student tells how beatings ‘still disturb me’ decades later

But only in secondaries as primary school data will still be gathered to monitor Covid impact on the attainment gap

Conventional uses of pupil premium funding help affluent pupils just as much as the disadvantaged, says Mark Unwin

A school feels ‘under attack’ when put at the bottom of a narrow-focused league table, says headteacher Shelley McLaren

Given the risk of new Covid variants, it’s not the time to take masks out of classrooms, says Professor Trish Greenhalgh

Reflection is a key part of teacher professional development – and schools must support it, say two PRU leaders