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Is the Early Years Foundation Stage too restrictive?
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- Margaret Edgington, Dr Richard House and Lynne Oldfeld argue for a more open approach to learning for early years children.
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- 02/07/2010
Editorial - The myths of leadership
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- There are five myths of leadership according to a large scale study of successful organisations across industry, sport and education partly funded by the NCSL and announced at their recent annual conference in Birmingham...
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- 02/07/2010
Heads and schools – finding the perfect match
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- With no end in sight to their difficulties in finding headteachers who have the right credentials, schools are increasingly turning to recruitment agencies. Crispin Andrews reports.
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- 02/07/2010
How unhappy are our children?
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- The mainstream media have seized gleefully on ‘evidence’ that Britain’s children are unhappy but, as Keith Savage explains, the real situation is not nearly as simple as that.
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- 02/07/2010
The magic ingredient: parents!
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- It’s not just your Ofsted report that’ll benefit from closer involvement with parents – teaching and learning will improve too. Margaret Booth has the winning formula.
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- 02/07/2010
Understanding the impact of technology
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- New research throws an intriguing light on the effectiveness of ICT in supporting the learning of individual pupils.
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- 02/07/2010
Positive discrimination
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- Should school managers 'bend the rules' to make learning more appealing to disaffected or uninterested pupils – even if it risks alienating some staff?
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- 02/07/2010
Primary File
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- The section of SLT dedicated specially to issues concerning primary schools.
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- 02/07/2010
The role of body language in teaching
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- The complex unconscious signals sent out by our posture can have a huge impact on teaching and learning, as Kieran Robinson recently discovered.
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- 02/07/2010
Search me
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- Where do schools stand in regard to searching and screening pupils? Chris Lowe advises on how to act within the law.
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- 02/07/2010
Social enterprise for schools
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- Social enterprises can have lasting benefits for students and staff as well as the community. Neil McIntosh explains.
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- 02/07/2010
The hidden cost of free schools
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- The new government is dashing headlong into the 'free schools' model adopted in Sweden – but evidence suggests that putting parents in charge may do more harm than good. Raspal Chima reports.
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- 02/07/2010
Towards a coaching culture
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- In the sixth of this series of articles on coaching, Nick Austin and Richard Churches outline some factors that should be considered in developing a coaching culture in your school.
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- 02/07/2010
Why I want to start a free school
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- Toby Young argues his case for setting up a school identified by its commitment to 'intellectual freedom, not political dogma'.
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- 02/07/2010
