Here’s your round-up of practical and useful advice for schools that we have published in the past seven days. 

Teaching during the coronavirus crisis:

• Is this how secondary schools will reopen?
• GCSEs: How will 2021 look for Year 11s?
• ‘Gavin Williamson is right - pupils should sit in rows’
• GCSEs 2021: how will mock exams work for Year 11s?
• EYFS: how we tackled the 5 key Covid-19 challenges
• Literacy: 3 things schools and parents should focus on
• 3 ways to structure talk about Covid-19 with pupils
• School closures: 5 changes teachers want to keep

Return to school guidance:

• 8 return to school rules for autumn you may have missed
• 11 questions about the September school return guidance
• Back to school: How will ’bubbles’ work from September?
• September schools reopening: a guide to Test and Trace
• Timetabling bubbles: FAQs from the government guidance
• 5 ways we need to change our teaching in September

General teaching topics:

• Is this the marking policy of your dreams?
• Who owns a child’s work? Not the teacher or the school
• How to talk to children about cancer

Recruitment/careers:

• How to become a senior leader at a multi academy trust
• Why you should hold your nerve when looking for international jobs
• Listen: advice for this year’s NQTs
• How I managed becoming a parent when teaching abroad
• Could trainees be this year’s recruitment solution? 
• Why first-time job hunters shouldn’t give up

For those with a subscription to the magazine:

• Pregnancy and teaching: a survival guide
• What’s the best number of pupils for group work?
• Visible Learning’s problems are clear to see
• How to get secondary students reading for pleasure
• Covid catch-up lessons must have emotion at their heart
• 7 essential lessons from research for subject leaders
• How phonics can boost FE learners’ literacy