If you’ve ever watched a Year 6 child run out of time in the reading paper, you’ll know the issue isn’t always understanding. It’s knowing what to do first, what to spend time on and what to leave. The encouraging thing is this: time management in the KS2 reading SATs is teachable and is something that can be worked upon right up until the tests arrive - in fact, it's often just the icing on the cake. Here are five ideas for how you can help children with their time management during the KS2...

Recently I had the pleasure of talking with Phil Banks and Danielle Lewis-Egonu for an episode of their The Kitchen Table Podcast. We talked all about designing curriculum intentionally so that all children benefit. Here's a few snippets of the episode to whet your whistle: So much of this work is about adopting a can-do mindset, and not settling for less: But this work has to be done with teacher wellbeing in mind as well as what's best for the children: "If you can work out what is going to...

You know you're the one who knows most about your school. But you worry that other people won't understand all that you've been through, all that you're working on, and all that you intend to do. To combat this, you know that you need to tell the story of your school, and that you need to tell it well so that anyone listening completely understands it. In the first blog post in this series we looked at how you can tell your school's story using the 4 Cs of storytelling and by talking about 4...