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Does more Retrieval Practice mean better grades? | InnerDrive Retrieval Practice is a valuable technique for enhancing memory retention and improving understanding. Find out how to get the most out of it in this blog.

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Does more retrieval = better grades? And does accuracy during retrieval practice matter?

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Defo these vibes

We’re particularly interested in hearing the views and experiences of children & young people around curriculum and assessment.

If you have a school council or pupil leadership team, coordinating a response to the call for evidence could be a really meaningful activity.

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How a student loan repayments policy could retain 2,100 teachers An author of research into the impact of reimbursing trainee teachers for student loan repayments explains the key findings and what it could mean for future policy decisions

The Government wants to recruit 6,500 new teachers. Should it look at paying teachers’ student loan repayments as a retention incentive?

Our new research suggests… maybe.

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Sarah Tang’s summary piece in @tesmagazine.bsky.social here: www.tes.com/magazine/ana...

Teacher of English, Croydon - Tes Jobs Orchard Park High School, United Kingdom

www.tes.com/jobs/vacancy... Come and work at my school, it's great!
✅ Excellent behaviour: lessons are disruption free, corridors are calm and orderly and students are polite
✅ No ridiculous marking: we use whole class feedback
✅ Supportive and visible SLT
✅ Centrally planned, fully resourced curric

He's still got it. An excellent blog for trainees, experienced teachers, school leaders. Thank you, Adam.

My job - Senior Lead for English at Ormiston Academies Trust - is up for grabs. An amazing opportunity for someone to consolidate implementation of English across the MAT mynewterm.com/jobs/4106/EDV-…

ESFA functions to move to the Department for Education ESFA set to close in March 2025, bringing the functions into the Department for Education to ensure financial improvement is central to school improvement.

Just announced: ESFA functions will move to the DfE. ESFA has played an important role in the system, but @cstvoice.bsky.social has long called for a single regulator. This is an opportunity to bring different regulatory functions of the ESFA & RDs together.
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The joys of the September birthday 😅

Everyone who’s ever edited a document: oh there’s now a blank page at the end of this Word document, time to get rid of that!

Word: no

Everyone: please delete

Word: shan’t

Everyone: * frantically presses delete backspace delete*

Word: answer me these riddles three

Please share

It was YEARS ago bit the training that I did at Durrington was some of the best in my whole career

Durrington Professional Development Twilights 2024 -25 Professional development opportunities at Durrington Research School for the 2024 – 25 academic year

During the 2024 - 25 academic year we are running online professional development twilight training on the seven most popular topics from the past few years. Details and sign-up below:
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Ok, you've done ultra-marathons, but have you done FOUR wet break duties on the bounce? No, no you haven't.

Removal of Ofsted overall grade has immediate impact for RI schools, many of whom are good in one or more sub judgements, but are tainted by the RI category, shows
@fftedudatalab.bsky.social analysis.

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Hard agree

Today's activity is an old favourite, 'Crazy Calculators'

Can you make every number from 1 to 20?

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Might as well start my Bluesky account as I mean to go on by posting about monthly teacher training recruitment data 🤓

Still woefully behind targets is the headline, in most subjects and even primary this year, underlining the need for further policy action to improve recruitment and retention

One of the best bits of this is only getting the call on a Monday. It sounds so minor but will have a massive positive impact on the wellbeing of school leaders.

This @tes timeline for OFSTED changes is really helpful.

Saw this somewhere. My daughter starts secondary on Tues so I've sown this little bead in her sleeve so she can feel it if she is worried and know I'm thinking of her.

If you’re feeling anxious about going back to work, you might want to try this activity from my book to help differentiate between feelings and facts table. I did it myself as I’m feeling quite anxious about it!

I hope it will help new and experienced teachers alike.

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Popped back on Twitter. Full of hate and misinformation. I'm this far away from deleting my account completely...

So heartening to read this ...

Every single thing that costs money or has “fund” attached to it is currently held up at the DFE.

This is understandable given what they inherited.

It won’t be understandable for long, though. If there is bad news coming, we need to know it asap.

Constantly having to explain your role and seeing the incredulous look on people's faces when you explain you are a head/ school leader 😔

Grade boundaries statistics 2024 exam results A level GCSE GCE, GCSE & iGCSE grade boundaries Summer 2024 (updated as released) Links (or scroll down) GCSE AQA EDEXCEL OCR WJEC/ EDUQAS CCEA GCE (AS/A Level) AQA EDEXCEL (Pearson) OCR WJEC/ EDUQAS CIE CCEA Secu...

All exam boards - GCSE grade boundaries, results statistics, reviews of marking etc in one place ⬇️

Updated as released.

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Children, Families & Education - Downs Syndrome Association

Are you welcoming a child who has Down syndrome to your classroom in September?

Check out these great resources from the DSA www.downs-syndrome.org.uk/about-downs-...

#SEND #SENDfamily #SENDfamilies #DownSyndrome #DownsSyndrome #Inclusion #InclusiveEducation

Here are more resources that I’ve been working on over the summer! A set of lessons on English Language, Paper 1. As always, help yourselves and use/chuck/change as you see fit! www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/bf6zc... @teamenglish1.bsky.social