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Issue 4.1

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SLT 4.1 Manager’s Briefcase

The Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS)

  • 9 May 2013
  • 24mins
Leadership

Learning more by teaching less

In each edition we will ask readers to nominate an education book they love. Jane Hewitt explores the values and the lessons of Jim Smith’s ‘The Lazy Teacher’s Handbook’.

  • 4 Jul 2012
  • 24mins
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Should primary schools convert?

What are the arguments for primary schools becoming academies? Andrew Langden has been helping schools sort out the pros and cons.

  • 4 Jul 2012
  • 24mins
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How to keep calm and learn to love Ofsted

Lee Pace has been through the Ofsted grinding mill so often that he knows what to do to avoid stress and find value in the process. The secret is a little housecleaning.

  • 4 Jul 2012
  • 24mins
Leadership

Income generation – A case study

The key to successful income generation depends on relationships, not extreme voluntary effort year in, year out. Now more than ever it’s time schools took a leaf out of the public schools’ and NHS’s book and worked smarter rather than harder.

  • 4 Jul 2012
  • 24mins
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Legal implications of exclusions

In 2012 teachers are being empowered to tackle unruly behaviour in ways never before permitted. However, this can have a dangerous legal impact. Anita Chopra raises awareness of the changes to the exclusions’ procedure.

  • 4 Jul 2012
  • 24mins
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Preparing seriously for school

Could an early years initiative in Blackpool, aimed at helping severely disadvantaged children get ready for school, pay off? In the first of a new series of articles on closing the performance gap Sarah Lambert looks at a project with some remarkable results.

  • 4 Jul 2012
  • 24mins
Leadership

Using friends to combat bullying

Training children and young people to act as peer supporters, to protect vulnerable individuals from being bullied and to create a more positive climate in their schools could be an important way forward? Helen Cowie looks at the evidence.

  • 4 Jul 2012
  • 24mins
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Simple steps to measure CPD

Sue Kelly gives practical guidance on how to involve staff in the evaluation of their own professional development.

  • 4 Jul 2012
  • 24mins
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To combat special measures, go creative

A failing school, a deprived community and a head accused of’not Knowing his own school’. Andrew Morrish explains how he stuck to educational prinicipals and created an outstanding school.

  • 4 Jul 2012
  • 24mins