The Summer 2023 edition of Headteacher Update offers 48 pages of in-depth, research-based and expert best practice, advice and guidance relevant to primary school leadership and teaching.

This edition offers best practice articles covering topical issues including Ofsted inspection, leadership excellence, subject focuses on science, English and maths, safeguarding reviews lessons learned, SEND & vulnerable pupils, school avoidance, EAL, the PE and Sport Premium, phonics teaching and much more. The edition also includes case studies, news and research summaries, comment & opinion, and the latest resources.

It also features our latest eight-page Best Practice Focus special report (pages 21-28) entitled Effective teaching assistant deployment. Does your primary school make the most of its teaching assistants? Do your teachers and teaching assistants work together and communicate effectively before and during lessons? In this Best Practice Focus, Sara Alston looks at effective teaching assistant deployment in the classroom in order to achieve maximum impact on pupil outcomes.

CLICK HERE: HTU Digital Edition Summer 2023

Edition highlights include articles on:

  • Keeping outstanding: A tale of two Ofsted inspections
  • Developing an ethic of leadership excellence
  • Ofsted: A focus on science education
  • The six stages of crisis: Responding to behaviour
  • Autism and ADHD: Three barriers to learning
  • How to spend the PE and Sport Premium well
  • Top 10 tips for better school break-times
  • The phonics funding explained
  • Coherence and concepts in the English curriculum
  • Tackling the cost of living crisis through reading
  • Mathematical fluency by teaching key concepts
  • Safeguarding trends and crucial lessons for schools
  • Supporting EAL pupils who arrive late in school
  • Working with parents to tackle school avoidance
  • Effective hacks for net zero
  • Trust at the heart of diverse schools