Posts by Caroline Draper
NATRE – Your Voice Matters: Shape the Future of Primary RE
The National Association of Teachers of Religious Education (NATRE) has launched its bi-annual primary survey. This is your chance to make sure the reality of RE in your classroom is…
Read MoreEducation Support: Your May Newsletter
Mental Health Awareness Week This year’s Mental Health Awareness Week theme focuses on taking action – for ourselves, for somebody else, and for all of us. We have a range…
Read MoreOxEd: Currently recruiting schools for an EEF-funded Effectiveness Research Trial of the OxEd Whole Class Programme
More children are starting school without the oral language skills needed to fully access learning, increasing the need for whole-class approaches that support communication alongside early reading development. OxEd, in…
Read MoreSomerset Centre for Integrated Learning (SCIL): From voice to sense making: reframing the role of the mentor
Are we truly hearing our trainees, or helping them make sense of what they hear? In SEND, confidence and the quiet power of mentoring in Initial Teacher Training, the importance…
Read MoreSomerset Centre for Integrated Learning (SCIL): SEND, confidence and the quiet power of mentoring in Initial Teacher Training
SEND is not about having all the answers, it is about building confidence through adaptive teaching, reflection, and mentoring. SEND is no longer a marginal issue in schools; it is…
Read MoreSchools Week: Ministers scrap physics and languages bursaries for foreign trainees
Ministers have been blasted for axing bursaries for overseas applicants hoping to become trainee physics and languages teachers without notice. The mid-year change was quietly announced at 5pm on Thursday.…
Read MoreDfE: Change to bursary and scholarship eligibility for international candidates
Change to bursary and scholarship eligibility for international candidates We are changing bursary and scholarship eligibility for international candidates. The change applies to candidates who do not yet have an…
Read MoreSchools Week: Government-funded ‘Get into Teaching’ events scrapped by DfE
The department quietly updated its website to say it had ‘made the decision not to run own-brand events’. The Department for Education has stopped running its own “Get Into Teaching”…
Read MoreNFER: Is the teacher supply challenge finally over?
Last week the Department for Education (DfE) published its estimates of how many postgraduate trainee teachers the system needs to recruit in 2026/27. The estimated targets were lower than many…
Read MoreDfE: Academic year 2026/27 Teacher demand and postgraduate trainee need
Academic year 2026/27 Teacher demand and postgraduate trainee need Annual teacher demand trajectories, and postgraduate initial teacher trainee need for those starting training in the relevant academic year, in England.…
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