Model Music Curriculum emphasises practical craft of music-making The DfE’s new Model Music Curriculum for key stages 1, 2, and 3 will promote regular performance opportunities, emphasising the practical craft of music-making, composition and collaboration, says Chris Cobb
Resources help pupils to better understand vaccination With routine childhood immunisations falling, a schools programme has been launched to enable children and families to make informed decisions about vaccinations.
School gardening resources support Covid-secure outdoor learning As increasing numbers of schools look to take learning outside during the pandemic, the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) has published a new series of gardening ideas, activities and resources.
Free post-lockdown online mental health workshops Online mental health and wellbeing workshops are being offered for free to primary schools to help address the impact of the lastest Covid-19 lockdown.
Vaccine myth-busting: Materials published for schools In a bid to tackle vaccine scepticism and misinformation among young people – much of which is spread via social media – learning materials have been made available to schools to help explain the Covid-19 vaccination programme.
Free period products: 60 per cent of primary schools still to apply The 10,000 primary and secondary schools yet to apply for free government-funded period products are being urged to act now.
Remote learning: Virtual school library opens A virtual school library has been launched in a bid to ensure access to books for pupils during the latest national lockdown.
Online event: National Curriculum Design & Ofsted Conference The First National Curriculum Design Conference will offer a range of advice on meeting Ofsted’s intent, implementation and impact requirements when it takes place online in January.
SHINE funding for projects supporting disadvantaged pupils Teachers and schools in the North of England are being offered the chance to access funding for projects supporting children and young people from disadvantaged backgrounds.
#SayTheWords: Supporting grieving children during the pandemic Children’s Grief Awareness Week runs from November 19 to 26 and is especially poignant this year given the on-going impact of the Covid-19 pandemic
BBC Bitesize and Oak National Academy expand Covid support Both BBC Bitesize and the Oak National Academy are expanding the support they are offering to schools for remote education and lesson planning during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Five Steps to Mental Health and Wellbeing A “Five Steps” framework to help develop whole-school approaches to mental health and wellbeing has been published.
Covid-19: A guide to teaching and learning this term and beyond In this 12-page, free-to-download guide, we consider what teaching and learning should look like in schools this term and beyond as all pupils return following the Covid-19 lockdown...
Guide to remote education & technology In this 12-page Back to School Guide we consider what the technological legacy of the Covid-19 lockdown will be for schools, including the teaching and working practices that will continue, and advice on effective remote education.
Covid-19: Staff wellbeing and support this term & beyond In this 12-page guide, we consider how lockdown has affected the wellbeing and mental health of school staff and offer practical advice and ideas for promoting wellbeing and supporting colleagues
Back to School Guide: Supporting student wellbeing In this 12-page Back to School guide, we consider how the lockdown will have affected young people’s wellbeing and mental health, what challenges we expect to see as more pupils return, and how schools must respond...
Literacy resources for parents and teachers Teachers and parents are being offered support for developing the literacy of those children most adversely affected by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Parent Talk service offers crucial lockdown support More than one in three parents admit to feeling overwhelmed or “out of their depth” when it comes to supporting their children’s wellbeing during the Covid-19 pandemic.
PE and Sport Premium underspends can be rolled over to September Any PE and Sport Premium funding that went unspent by schools because of the coronavirus lockdown can be rolled over to the next academic year, it has been confirmed, but must be spent by March.
Back-up 10,000-lesson remote learning curriculum plan published for schools The government-funded Oak National Academy has published its curriculum plans for the next academic year so that schools can begin planning how they might make use of the free resources.
Safe home science experiments A “Science at Home” STEM education resource aimed at six to 12-year-olds has been launched.
Key stage 2: Environmental design challenge The final deadline in Headteacher Update's environmental design challenge for key stage 2 has been extended until August 7 to allow pupils to work up their entries during the summer holidays. 1 comment
Digital strategy in an age of remote learning A free guide to creating a digital strategy for your school has been updated and republished taking into account the new landscape of remote learning.
Around 10,000 curriculum video lessons offered to schools for free Around 10,000 lessons covering most of the national curriculum are to be created and recorded by the Oak National Academy and will be made freely available to schools next year.
From David Attenborough to Shakespeare: BBC unveils Bitesize plans for June and July The BBC has unveiled details of its educational programming for the second half of the summer term for pupils in years 1 to 10, including specific themed weeks.
