Primary

Monday

3rd Oct 2022

Support pours in for primary on receiving end of racist abuse
First minister and education secretary among those to condemn racist tweets directed at Glasgow primary school
Racism

Thursday

29th Sep 2022

Labour’s free breakfast plan sounds tasty - but is hard to digest
A proposal to offer free breakfast clubs in primary schools may sound like an easy policy win but, as this primary head outlines, the devil is in the details
Morning meal

Tuesday

27th Sep 2022

Labour pledges fully funded breakfast clubs in all primary schools
Policy to be funded by reinstating 45 per cent income tax bracket, shadow education secretary to announce
Young pupil pours milk into cereal bowl

Friday

23rd Sep 2022

Sats 2022: Fears wrong results data may go to Ofsted
School leaders have reported issues accessing the Department for Education’s KS2 assessment results checking service
boy doing his homework
Ofsted: Small primaries five times more likely to be ‘inadequate’
Exclusive: Findings show need for Ofsted to ensure inspection framework is ‘proportionate’ and ‘fair’, say school leaders
Useless, raining

Thursday

22nd Sep 2022

Could a class dog get children excited about reading?
Animal-assisted interventions have grown in popularity in recent years, but do they really work? New research adds to the evidence base
Could a class dog get children excited about reading?

Wednesday

7th Sep 2022

Sats 2022: Fall in pupils achieving test standard
The fall shows ‘government’s failure to fund a proper recovery plan’, says headteacher leader
Pupil with head on arms at desk on piles of paper
Sats 2022: STA sorry for ‘unacceptable’ delays and missing papers
Exclusive: Any key stage 2 Sats results that have not appeared on the Primary Assessment Gateway by today are ‘lost’, the Standards and Testing Agency tells schools
Man stands on stepladder in maze with telescope

Tuesday

6th Sep 2022

Sats 2022: Disadvantage gap at KS2 is widest in 10 years
The DfE today published new data from this year’s key stage 2 Sats results – here are six things we learned
Sats 2022: Disadvantage gap at KS2 is widest in 10 years

Wednesday

24th Aug 2022

How to create a trauma-informed classroom
When it comes to classroom design, this school asks just one question: which layout will be the calmest? Here, headteacher Clare Campbell explains why
Relaxing seating

Monday

22nd Aug 2022

4 ways to improve PE in Scottish primary schools
The drive to ‘catch up’ after Covid must not be to the detriment of PE and health and wellbeing, says Dominic Tollan
Physical Education

Tuesday

2nd Aug 2022

Why there’s no one-size-fits-all approach to learning to read
Some learners start school lacking the foundational skills they need to succeed – something that off-the-shelf reading schemes don’t always acknowledge, says Megan Dixon
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