School holidays offer staff, pupils, and parents a crucial chance to unwind and refresh. However, the first day back can often feel like a shock, making it challenging to get back into the routine. To ease this transition and maintain…
Parent teacher meeting is an opportunity to get your pupils on track, celebrate their achievements and get their parents on-side. Sometimes, that’s easier said than done. Appointments run over and some parents don’t show up. Add in the anxiety of…
Ask any teacher about parents’ evening and they’ll have a few tales to tell. When you’re busy teaching a full timetable, parents’ evening can seem like an uphill struggle and little mistakes can fall through the cracks. Some teachers…
As we enter the final term, many teachers will already be thinking ahead to next academic year. As the pressure of SATs and GCSEs subsides, the summer term is a perfect time to reflect on the year and plan ahead…
This blog highlights the best technology educational tools and how and optimises your time. Whatever your role, you never have enough hours in the day when you work in a school. Recent budget cuts and staff shortages strain teaching and…
Building community spirit in any school is challenging, but even more so in a MAT. Each school has a unique identity, often its greatest asset. As a MAT leader, you aim to create a shared ethos across all schools in…
With recent budget cuts and the continuing recruitment crisis, school leaders are increasingly under pressure to achieve more with less. Leaders of multi academy trusts face an additional challenge, because the work of school improvement is so different at scale.…
Parental engagement is essential in school life, as headteacher Tina Oliva notes in Education Business. Tina Oliva from St John Evangelist Catholic Primary School highlights the benefits of effective parental engagement and explains how a dedicated school app has improved…
There are so many benefits to having a customised app for your school. For instance, the ability to instantly share information with parents means that there is hardly any missed communication. Consequently, your staff will no longer need to chase…
Here’s a tough question for you. How financially efficient is your school? Put another way, what proportion of your school’s spend per pupil goes directly to teaching and learning? Whatever your number is, the chances are you’ll want it…