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Award Winning Deaf Teacher An Inspiration For Deaf and Hearing Children Alike

My most uplifting moment of the year so far was when I interviewed Alysha Allen, who has won the 2020 Teacher Of The Year Award despite being profoundly deaf

26 Jan
Sal McKeown

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A Little Robot Friend On The Desk Can Help Troubled Students Back To School

AV1 keeps children with cancer in touch with their schools. Now it is a channel for blended learning and could be a lifeline for children with poor mental health

18 Dec 2020
24mins
Sal McKeown

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The Four Pillars of Support Missing For Children With Special Educational Needs During Covid -19

Sonia Blandford describes the needs of children with Special Educational Needs during the Covid Crisis, which she laments, have been disgracefully neglected

17 Dec 2020
24mins
Sonia Blandford

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Disability Theatre Comes Of Age In Coventry’s City Of Culture 2021

Coventry has a key role in the history of theatre in England and, thanks to Open Theatre, young people with learning disabilities are centre stage in the CoC's current plans

8 Dec 2020
24mins
Sal McKeown

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Award Winning Deaf Teacher An Inspiration For Deaf and Hearing Children Alike

My most uplifting moment of the year so far was when I interviewed Alysha Allen, who has won the 2020 Teacher Of The Year Award despite being profoundly deaf

26 Jan

Special Needs

A Little Robot Friend On The Desk Can Help Troubled Students Back To School

AV1 keeps children with cancer in touch with their schools. Now it is a channel for blended learning and could be a lifeline for children with poor mental health

18 Dec

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The Advantages Of Tutoring For Disadvantaged Children

So many attempts have been tried to close the achievement gap. Most of them do not seem sustainable or scalable and the gap has widened with Lockdown. Susannah Hardymann believes that tutoring can be a big part of any viable catch-up solution.

5 Oct

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How Coaching Can Create A Thinking, Learning School

Coaching enables teachers to focus on learning rather than teaching and helps them to understand themselves and their practice, advocates Kulvarn Atwel, executive head of two outstanding schools in London

5 Oct

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Public Libraries Can Drive The Lockdown Agenda – Even With Covid-19!

Sue Williamson insists that school libraries’ role in education and inclusion has actually increased during the Pandemic

5 Oct

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Do We Need To Move Children’s Mental Health And Wellbeing Centre Stage

After attending yet another mental health course which raised awareness of the issues faced in schools but offered little in the way of solutions, Paula Talman decided to do something about it. So she set up the iSpace Wellbeing Curriculum

14 Sep

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Rescuing A Generation At Risk From Covid and Exclusions

A project at Lyng School In Coventry, which has 50 per cent of its children on free school meals, has shown remarkable success in keeping all its children engaged during the lockdown. Sonia Blandford describes the project and argues that it should be rolled out across the country.

11 Aug

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Parental Engagement Is Good. But What Does It Really Mean?

Campaigning broadly for parental engagement often doesn’t reach the parents you most want to. For these parents, engagement has to be case specific, and involve partnership working at home and at school, explains Maureen Hunt

31 Jul

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Jessica’s Story: Responding To Children Who Have Suffered Traumatic Loss

A child’s behaviour can spiral out of control in the aftermath of losing a loved relative or parents separating. Putting these children into detention or suspending them, is the opposite of how a school should respond. Dr Margot Sunderland describes what happened to Jessica

31 Jul

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Sebbie’s Story – Managing The Behaviour Of Traumatised Children

In the third guidance in her series of dealing with children with trauma related issues , Dr Margot Sunderland offers practical guidance for non-specialist teachers and school staff on how to respond to children in distress

15 Jun

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Getting the ICT Basics Right Drives Creativity

Are you making the most of your technology? Peter Boucher explores.

22 Apr

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Can The 2014 Vision of the Children and Families Bill Ever Be Realised?

James Bowen analyses what went wrong with one of the most ambitious pieces of legislation for children with special needs in a quarter of a century.

22 Apr

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STEM: How to Bridge the Attainment Gap for Disadvantaged Pupils

Panagiota Letsou describes a unique project to engage children from disadvantaged communities in science and technology.

22 Apr

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The Latest Every Child Journal Is Here

Every Child Journal Issue 8.1 is ready to download.

21 Apr

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Huge Reading Gains With Structured Parental Involvement Could Counter Covid-19 Effect

New Research shows that organised parental engagement in their children's reading could more than offset losses caused by Covid-19. Heather Clements reports on the Every Child A Reader Framework

17 Apr

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Sarah’s Story: Helping Children And Teenagers Who Live With Anxiety

In the first of her new Beyond the Classroom series, Dr Margot Sunderland offers practical guidance for non-specialist teachers and school staff responding to children in distress who ‘behave their trauma’. In this first guidance we meet ‘Sarah’, who struggles with anxiety and Dr Sunderland explores the need to view children’s behaviour within the context of their home lives.

14 Apr

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Extending Learning with Games, Skills and Communication

Paddy McCaffrey, Achievement for All Coach, provides some strategies for making more of the home environment

7 Apr

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What is Cultural Capital in The Early Years?

It’s critical, but hard to pin down. Maureen Hunt, Head of Early Years at Achievement for All explains what it is, why it's so important and some strategies to endow children with it.

25 Mar

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