The Schools' Air Quality Monitoring for Health and Education (SAMHE) is a project offering schools a free air quality monitor and learning resources. The monitor will provide evidence for national policies and practice to make schools healthier for pupils. Schools can: Get a free monitor View data on air quality in the classroom using a … Continue reading Schools’ Air Quality Monitoring for Health and Education (SAMHE)
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Schools offered free cyber defence tools to help keep out attackers
UK education settings can sign up for the NCSC's Web Check and Mail Check services to protect their websites and email servers from cyber attacks. SCHOOLS can now benefit from free cyber defence tools from the nation’s leading experts to help them protect their emails and websites from online attackers. Find out more here,
Access to extra-curricular provision and the association with outcomes
This new report from The Education Policy Institute focuses on the later-in-life benefits that are gained from extra-curricular clubs at secondary school. The main conclusions are: Attending extra-curricular clubs during secondary school is associated with a range of positive outcomes Participation in extra-curricular activities varies by school type Vulnerable students were less likely to attend … Continue reading Access to extra-curricular provision and the association with outcomes
Effective School Groups: Inclusion and Attainment Metrics
A new tool from the Education Policy Institute presents a set of metrics developed in order to help inform judgements about the inclusion and attainment of school groups in England. It is motivated by the notion that there is no single measure by which a school or school group should or could be judged. Instead … Continue reading Effective School Groups: Inclusion and Attainment Metrics
UK Poverty 2024
The Joseph Rowntree Foundation has published a report on the state of poverty in the UK, concluding that poverty has increased, close to pre-pandemic levels. Children have consistently had the highest poverty rates, while pensioners along with working-age adults without children now have the lowest. They note: We have now experienced nearly 3 tough years … Continue reading UK Poverty 2024
ChatGPT in lesson preparation in secondary schools
The Education Endowment Foundation today announced a Teacher Choices trial exploring different approaches to lesson and resource preparation in KS3 Science. Specifically, this trial tests the impact of ChatGPT-assisted lesson and resource preparation on teacher time, with implementation support via a guide for teachers, against approaches unassisted by generative AI technology. This is open to … Continue reading ChatGPT in lesson preparation in secondary schools
EdCon 2024
EdCon, a free online conference hosted by law firm Browne Jacobson is being held online for four days from Monday 29 January 2024 to Thursday 1 February 2024. There is a wide ranging selection of topics including keynotes and workshops, for example: Keynotes on trust leadership and measuring success A live Q&A on using AI … Continue reading EdCon 2024
Understanding Attendance: Findings on the drivers of pupil absence
In the 2022-23 academic year, 22.3% of all pupils were persistently absent. ImpactEd Evaluation launched Understanding Attendance, a national project helping schools and trusts to identify the underlying drivers of pupil absence, and the first report from this project "Understanding Attendance: Findings on the drivers of pupil absence from over 30,000 young people in England" … Continue reading Understanding Attendance: Findings on the drivers of pupil absence
Behaviour and Safety: Key Trends and Challenges
A new report from Edurio focuses on pupil behaviour. Their research on pupil behaviour and safety is based on the analysis of the views of staff, pupils, parents, and school leaders. They found that feelings of safety have declined by almost 10% in the last two years alone. Key learnings discussed in the report include: … Continue reading Behaviour and Safety: Key Trends and Challenges
Education: the fundamentals – Eleven facts about the education system in England
In December 2023 the Education Policy Institute published a report summarising the current status and some future trends for education in England. They identified eleven facts, as follows: Fact 1: England performs well against international comparators. Fact 2: Around 40 per cent of the disadvantage gap at age 16 is already evident by age 5 … Continue reading Education: the fundamentals – Eleven facts about the education system in England
The RE Podcast
For those who are interested in RE, Louisa Jane Smith, an RE teacher with over 20 years' teaching expereince and a degree in theology, has an RE Podcast which she notes is "The first dedicated religious education podcast for students and teachers" offering "Bite-size weekly episodes on religion, ethics and philosophy." You can visit her … Continue reading The RE Podcast
Take Action on Climate Change
Do your pupils want to take action on climate change? Eco-Schools can help! Millions of pupils at thousands of schools around the UK are already taking action on climate change thanks to Eco-Schools' simple seven-step programme. The infographic below comes from Eco-Schools' 2022-23 Impact Report. You can sign up for their programme and read more … Continue reading Take Action on Climate Change
Performance Tracker 2023: Schools
The Institute for Government's 2023 Performance Tracker outlines some of the key trends in mainstream education last year, and points to some issues for the future. Some of the key points are: Pupil numbers have peaked since the end of the last "baby boom" in 2013, so in genetral schools will see falling rolls in … Continue reading Performance Tracker 2023: Schools
ParentKind Survey report 2023
Folling from the November Parental Engagement Report 2023 (reported on this site) the National Parent Survey, conducted by YouGov on behalf of Parentkind has just been published. You can download the report using the link below, and some of the main findings include: Over 2.8 million children live in households where their parents are struggling … Continue reading ParentKind Survey report 2023
Mental Health of Children and Young People in England
This report, conducted in 2023, from the NHS presents findings from the fourth (wave 4) in a series of follow up reports to the 2017 Mental Health of Children and Young People (MHCYP) survey. 2,370 children and young people who took part in the MHCYP 2017 survey took part in the wave 4 follow up. … Continue reading Mental Health of Children and Young People in England