http://www.teachingtimes.com/zone/primary-leadership.htm en-GB Fri, 16 Dec 2011 11:27:39 GMT http://www.teachingtimes.com/articles/cutting-creativity.htm Teachers are the first to acknowledge how well pupils respond to a creative curriculum. The only difficulty can be finding the time and the expertise to deliver it. The Creative Partnerships Programme has enabled many schools to experiment and innovate. But what will funding cuts mean for the programme? Mon, 06 Sep 2010 13:05:33 GMT http://www.teachingtimes.com/articles/education-teacher-recruitment-agency.htm 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. Thu, 08 Jul 2010 11:36:36 GMT http://www.teachingtimes.com/articles/cross_curriculum_book_sale.htm Imaginative Minds are offering education professionals a range of discounted cross-curriculum titles from our online catalogue in our Autumn BOOK SALE. Wed, 14 Sep 2011 14:41:45 GMT http://www.teachingtimes.com/articles/sef-safeguarding-1.htm The Ofsted judgment ‘The effectiveness of safeguarding procedures’ is one of the eight judgments under ‘Leadership and management’. What does this mean for schools and how might you complete the judgement on your SEF. Read on to find out more… Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:04:45 GMT http://www.teachingtimes.com/articles/ofsted-and-community.htm The Ofsted judgment ‘The effectiveness with which the school promotes community cohesion’ is one of the eight judgments under ‘Leadership and management’. What does this mean for schools and how might you complete the judgement on your SEF. Read on to find out more… Thu, 04 Mar 2010 09:29:49 GMT http://www.teachingtimes.com/articles/pupil-contribution-community2.htm The Ofsted judgment ‘The extent to which pupils contribute to the school and wider community’ is one of the seven judgments under ‘Outcomes:how well are pupils doing, taking account of any variation?’. What does this mean for schools and how might you complete the judgement on your SEF. Read on to find out more… Wed, 31 Mar 2010 23:17:57 GMT http://www.teachingtimes.com/articles/sef-feeling-safe2.htm The Ofsted judgment ‘The extent to which pupils feel safe’ is one of the seven judgments under ‘Outcomes: how well are pupils doing, taking account of any variation?’. What does this mean for schools and how might you complete the judgement on your SEF? Read on to find out more… Thu, 25 Mar 2010 21:51:24 GMT http://www.teachingtimes.com/articles/ncreasinglyseparatescotlandsschoolsystem.htm A radical gulf is opening up between Scottish and English high school system. Ken Cunningham looks at the educational border that now lies between Scotland and the rest of the UK Wed, 14 Dec 2011 14:11:12 GMT http://www.teachingtimes.com/articles/canpoliticalinterferenceeverend.htm Deputy Head teacher, Gavin White, looks at the debilitating effect of party politics upon our education system and suggests a way to end the nightmare Fri, 16 Dec 2011 11:20:48 GMT http://www.teachingtimes.com/articles/timetogomultilingual.htm As the world grows smaller, it’s no longer enough to confine language learning to conversational French. Peter Downes introduces the wider world of the Discovering Language programme Wed, 02 Nov 2011 12:51:10 GMT http://www.teachingtimes.com/articles/developing-teaching-learning-materials.htm Perhaps nothing has more direct impact on pupils than the quality of teaching and learning in a school. No matter how effective other aspects of a school's provision might be it's what is delivered in the classroom that really matters. These materials are designed to be used with the accompanying presentation to help you improve practice in your school. Wed, 07 Sep 2011 15:55:13 GMT http://www.teachingtimes.com/articles/teaching-and-learning-presentation.htm This presentation is accompanied by the Primary File materials 'Developing Teaching and Learning' Wed, 07 Sep 2011 15:58:10 GMT http://www.teachingtimes.com/articles/listening-online-to-pupils-view.htm With 'pupil voice' increasingly a priority, how can schools avoid tokenism and engage students in a genuine dialogue about issues that matter? SLT discovers one school’s secret weapon: blogging. Fri, 24 Jul 2009 16:24:56 GMT http://www.teachingtimes.com/articles/aiming-for-learning-focused.htm What is learning? It's something we think we all know but do we? Fairlawn Primary School decided to clarify what it meant for their school and embarked on a learning-focused programme. In this article we hear about how they did this. Read more... Sun, 01 Nov 2009 18:11:46 GMT