Should we focus more on teacher strength rather than teacher weakness?
Simon Elliott, CEO of Community Schools Trust, discusses whether to focus on teacher strength rather than teacher weakness
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Re-defining Science approach: accounts of how we improved our Science curriculum (part 3)
Re-defining our approach-Science curriculum rationale Our work on the Science curriculum has been inspired following my visit to Michaela...
Dynamo and Daisy explain DPR
Dynamo and Daisy explain to parents and students how to use Dynamic Progress Reporting. This excellent video was first premiered during...
Science Curriculum Rationale: accounts of how we improved our Science curriculum (part 2)
Wahida Mehsana AHT, Forest Gate Community School Science Curriculum Rationale and Organisation Many Years ago, I recollect reading an...
Visualising Mathematics Sequencing: accounts of how we improved our Mathematics curriculum (part 3)
Zarah Kanwel Deputy More Able Student Lead, Forest Gate Community School Visualising the Mathematics Sequencing The diagrams below...
Mathematical fascination: accounts of how we improved our Mathematics curriculum (part 2)
Mathematical fascination- stepping beyond the curriculum Four questions that bothered me when I was young: 1. If people are poor, why...
How to access your lessons from home
A guide for students in the Community Schools Trust
Continued learning amid the Coronavirus outbreak
With the recent Coronavirus outbreak and news of a few school closures in the UK, there is a real possibility of other schools being...
In 10 years from now, how would you like your students to remember you?
“Why was your favourite teacher, your favourite teacher?” The responses all had one thing in common - they cared. If you think back to...
Add some colour to your plenary using DPR
Questioning Questioning is probably the best form of assessment for learning there is. When done well, it can be quick, engaging and it...
The Mayor's Schools for Success Programme
DPR is considered an 'innovative' tool for schools to track and monitor the progress students make. It showcases many schools with...
Achieving coherence in a level-less limbo
Finally, a change that we can welcome. Ofsted are talking more about subject knowledge, richness of curriculum and learning, and a clear...
Community Schools Trust: Curriculum Approach
by Simon Elliott CEO, CST Curriculum Intent Forest Gate Community School (FGCS) and The Cumberland School (TCS) serve areas of...
Does teacher feedback actually make students perform worse?
Enough for a teacher to leave the profession Before the days we adopted ‘live marking’, we had some interesting conversations with our...
I banned retrospective marking at my school
“...written marking had become unnecessarily burdensome for teachers” EEF Marking review Beyond the tumbling piles of unmarked books and...
Are schools failing our brightest students?
"Inspectors reported concerns about Key Stage 3 in one in five of the routine inspections analysed, particularly in relation to the slow...