The Summer 2024 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. We also publish our latest seven-page Best Practice Focus pull-out, which offers practical ideas and advice for supporting the education and social development of pupils who use English as an additional language (EAL)
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The edition offers best practice articles covering a range of useful, important and topical issues including the latest on workload reduction efforts in primary schools, the attendance crisis and new guidance, and preparing for the changes to performance management rules.

We also have articles on handling parental complaints, achieving effective implementation of interventions and projects with the latest EEF guidance, closing the language and word gap, assessing pupils' language skills, and managing pupil allergies in school.

This 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 complete guide to supporting EAL pupils. 

With more than 1 in 5 primary pupils identified as using English as an additional language, linguistic diversity is a feature of many classrooms. In this Best Practice Focus, Glynis Lloyd, Sarah Moodie and Sheila Hopkins describe a whole-school framework for building an inclusive approach to address the social, pastoral and academic needs of multilingual pupils

Edition article highlights include:

  • Workload and the 23 barred tasks for teachers (pages 1 & 3)
  • Present, curious, courageous: Leadership as conversation (pages 6 & 8)
  • Achieving effective implementation in school (pages 10 & 11)
  • Absence and attendance: The battle continues (pages 12 & 13)
  • Performance management: Are you ready to change? (page 14)
  • Parental complaints: (pages 16 & 17)
  • Six steps for lowering teacher workload (page 20)
  • Autism: Understanding PDA and supporting pupils (page 29)
  • Closing the word gap: Support pupils' spoken language (pages 30 & 31)
  • Assessing pupils' language skills (pages 33 & 34)
  • First encounters with William Shakespeare (pages 36 & 37)
  • How to create a great library in your school (pages 38 & 39)
  • Delving into Ofsted's English subject report (pages 40 & 41)
  • Supporting children from Armed Services families (pages 42 & 43)
  • Managing allergies in school (page 44 & 45)