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Budget restraints often mean schools are reducing the size of their senior leadership teams, which inevitably pushes additional responsibilities down onto middle leaders.

Middle leaders have a key role in influencing the standard of education within a school that is laid out in the new EIF

Your middle leaders are likely to be made up of the head of departments by subject or key stages. These colleagues should come together as a middle leadership team that can drive the school’s vision and improvement plan forward.

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Most teachers will be aware of schemas and how they operate as patterns of learning that eventually form into concepts. But what about priming?

Priming is defined as the triggers that are associated with memories to help them be accessed.

For example, if you are asked about a time from your past, you will associate it with certain smells, music, sounds, and feelings. It’s not something we do consciously; instead, it happens at a synaptic level.

So what does priming mean for teachers when they want their students to recall learning?

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Ofsted highlighted cultural capital in 2019 as an essential aspect of a child’s personal development. Based on Bourdieu’s studies in social mobility, it is seen in education as a way of creating well-rounded citizens of the future.

Schools have since developed unique ways of offering enrichment activities to support their pupils in growing cultural capital, but now with a cost of living crisis, it seems harder for schools to find room in their budgets for these extracurricular experiences.

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Pupils’ use of mobile phones in schools has created a surprisingly polarised debate.

According to The Independent, smartphone usage has increased, with nearly half of five to ten-year-olds owning their own phone. Once children are in secondary, you would be hard pushed to find anyone without one.

The question for schools is how to safeguard mobile phone use alongside any disruption.

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