The edition offers best practice articles covering a range of useful, important and topical issues including the end of performance-related pay, a proactive safeguarding response to the summer riots, understanding pupil mutism, and more
We have a special focus on school food, with a case study from the Chefs in Schools programme and a look at the work of the Real Food Rebellion in tackling ultra-processed foods in schools. We also carry case studies on one school's flexible timetables and another school's teaching and learning model. And we look at how we can get pupils writing for pleasure.
This is all alongside our usual news and research summaries, comment & opinion, and the latest resources.
It features our latest seven-page Best Practice Focus special report (pages 21-28) entitled A framework for reading.
In this Best Practice Focus, school leader and regular Headteacher Update contributor Robbie Burns outlines a clear and comprehensive reading pedagogy and framework for the primary school. Drawing on extensive research and his experience of leading and teaching reading, he discusses high-quality text selection, crafting units of work, supporting struggling readers, and tried and tested strategies.
Edition article highlights include:
- Performance-related pay: Is this the end? (pages 1 & 3)
- Chefs in Schools: A school food revolution (pages 6 & 7)
- Ultra-processed foods and the Real Food Rebellion (pages 10-11)
- Case study: Flexible teaching timetables (pages 12-13)
- Case study: The Effective Teaching and Learning Model (pages 14-15)
- Commentary: Assessment or accountability? (page 16)
- Running a small school (pages 18-19)
- Summer riots: Proactive safeguarding (page 29)
- Writing for pleasure, enjoyment and success (pages 30-31)
- Once upon a time... Story-telling leaders (pages 32-33)
- School ethos: An Inclusion Charter (pages 35-36)
- Careers: What next after your first headship? (page 38)
- Coaching: Rethinking how we manage our teachers (pages 40-41)
- RE: Deep and meaningful? (page 42)
- Mental health: Understanding mutism (page 43)
- Latest resources and products (pages 44-45)
- Staff wellbeing: Are your teachers stressed? (page 46)