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AI is already shaping how teachers learn but how should it be used?
For #AIAwarenessDay, I’m sharing the NIoT Evidence Portal strand on AI-enabled professional learning.
Explore how AI can support feedback, reflection and rehearsal.
👉 evidenceportal.niot.org.uk/t…
#AIineducation
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AI is already shaping how teachers learn but how should it be used?
For #AIAwarenessDay, I’m sharing the NIoT Evidence Portal strand on AI-enabled professional learning.
Explore how AI can support feedback, reflection and rehearsal.
👉 evidenceportal.niot.org.uk/t……
#AIineducation
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The @EducEndowFoundn has released updated guidance on metacognition & self-regulated learning - one of its most widely used evidence resources.
Explore the update here: d2tic4wvo1iusb.cloudfront.ne…
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29 Jul 2025
Maximising the Impact of Teaching Assistants with the EEF’s 2025 Guidance.
Written by @ArkinstallNikki.
nexus-education.com/blog-pos…
#EEF, #TAs, #TeachingAssistants, #Collaboration
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8 Jul 2025
NATIONAL HEADLINES for SATs 2025:
(Everything up by 1%)
RWM: 62%, up from 61% last year
Reading: 75%, up from 74% last year
Maths: 74%, up from 73% last year
Writing: 72%, up from 71.5% last year
GPS: 73%, up from 72% last year
Science: 82%, up from 81% last year
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7 Jul 2025
Primary schools will get one of three levels of 'support' from government school improvement squads aimed at boosting reception teaching, with English and maths hubs expected to do much of the heavy lifting
schoolsweek.co.uk/best-start…
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🌟 NEW BLOG 🌟
We discuss the first recommendation of the @EducEndowFoundn Deployment of Teaching Assistant Guidance Report.
Recommendation 1: Making the Most of Teaching Assistants — Don’t Replace the Chef with the Sous-Chef.
lnkd.in/eGyxnKFv
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Thank you to everyone who joined us today for an amazing session with Juliet Stafford, Amy Sandilands and Sharon Leftwich-Lloyd from @EtoneCollege college re: Disciplinary Literacy!
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🌟NEW BLOG 🌟
Want to ensure that Teaching Assistants are deployed effectively for maximum impact?
Have you read the updated @EducEndowFoundn guidance report?
Read this new blog for a summary of the new guidance and a link to the full report.
shorturl.at/RujKR
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5 May 2025
Y6 teachers - planning for the last 4 days before SATs?
See what hasn’t appeared in SATs for the last few years (OR what has appeared every single year so far) and revise it!
See below 👀
27 Apr 2025
9 days to go until SATs! Last-minute things to revise 📝
MATHS: scale factors, reading scales & volume (tinyurl.com/SATsmaths)
GRAMMAR: parenthesis, synonyms/antonyms & apostrophes (tinyurl.com/SATsGPS)
SPELLING: silent letters & /shun/ endings (tinyurl.com/SATsspelling)
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4 May 2025
🚨-🧵1of2 - A REMINDER: If you’ve employed an Early Career Teacher for September, it’s essential that you read the updated their statutory induction guidance to reflect changes brought about by the introduction of the Initial Teacher Training and Early Career Framework (ITTECF)
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29 Apr 2025
“TA-led interventions can have real impact. To be done well, they will need to be targeted to an area of need, be time-limited and support access to classroom teaching.”
@SENDmattersuk explores how to maximise the vital role of teaching assistants.
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🌟New Podcast 🎙️- Reading Curriculum comprehension strategies.
Amy Sandilands from @EtoneCollege discusses how they used the EEF pilot study in the Geography department and beyond.
Learn all about Teacher and Pupil Curriculum Comprehension strategies:
podbean.com/eas/pb-5jmg2-189…
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Want to find out all about the 🌟NEW 🌟@eef Deployment of Teaching Assistants Guidance Report?
Sign up to our newsletter to receive a special edition which includes a recorded webinar explaining the new recommendations for effective TA deployment.
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29 Mar 2025
After hosting a social meal in Manchester last night, our team is heading to Leeds to host our final face-to-face event of the academic year. Our North Lunch and Lead Meet will start at 12pm today.
Follow our socials and hashtag #SteppingUpSaturday to see what happens…
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Interesting survey looking at school readiness for Reception pupils. There is a big gulf between parent and educator perceptions. shorturl.at/COCWV
Want to support your families with school readiness? Download this useful resource- startingreception.co.uk/abou…
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✨NEW BLOG ✨
'I Can't do maths....yet!'
Guest blogger, Neil Randall from @EtoneCollege, discusses how to minimise gaps in recall so that it does not impact on future learning.
He shares some great ideas for a smooth transition to Secondary School.
tinyurl.com/2fsy5p7u
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✨New BLOG ✨
Joe Goldie, discusses- Reading within a Bridging Curriculum for Y7 pupils.
This is the first in a series of blogs focused on supporting students with high level of Special Educational Needs in Secondary Schools.
shorturl.at/ZJCNR
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7 Feb 2025
As part of National Storytelling Week at Willows, a mystery reader from each year group visited another class to show off their storytelling skills, and this little superstar stole the show! Watch out, Michael Rosen! There’s a new star in town. #confident #skills
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7 Feb 2025
Mrs Lewis’s class love a good story, so for National Storytelling Week we revisited a favourite of ours. We highly recommend, ‘I am Nefertiti’ by Anne Marie Annang #lovelearning
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