The January 2022 edition of Headteacher Update offers 48 pages of in-depth, research-based and expert best practice, advice and guidance relevant to primary schools.

We have best practice articles covering issues including early help, classroom design, Ofsted inspection, baseline assessment, school culture, climate change, school uniform, and safeguarding. The edition also includes research summaries, case studies, news analysis, comment and resources.

In addition, it features our latest in-depth Best Practice Focus (pages 21-28), which looks at the principles and implementation of a whole-school reading strategy. Author Robbie Burns discusses the most effective strategies to ensure that every child leaves primary school a fluent reader and dissects the science, principles, and essential elements of effective reading practice.

CLICK HERE: HTU Digital Edition Spring 2022

Other edition highlights include articles on:

  • Developing an Early Help offer in response to Covid
  • Planning your classroom learning spaces
  • A case study of inspection during Covid
  • Lessons from the roll-out of Reception Baseline Assessment
  • The chronicles of a therapeutic classroom
  • Behaviour: Relational practice
  • How can you change a school’s culture?
  • Preparing for inspection: An Ofsted toolkit
  • The climate crisis, curriculum and CPD
  • Reviewing your school uniform policy
  • Post-Covid: Building a resilient education system
  • Safeguarding: Implications of the incel phenomenon
  • When pupils get angry: How would you respond?
  • Staff wellbeing: Could you spot the symptoms of burn-out?

This edition published on January 6 and has also been sent in hard copy form, free-of-charge, to every primary school in England. All inquiries to editor Pete Henshaw, via pete.henshaw@markallengroup.com