Helping you to look after your pupils' wellbeing and catch-up on learning
As you welcome all your students back to the classroom, we know that along with the positivity of returning to face-to-face learning and reuniting friends, there are multiple challenges you'll need to manage.
From re-establishing routines, managing behaviour and rebuilding your own confidence in front of a class, to checking understanding, consolidating learning and supporting everyone's wellbeing, we've got the resources, training courses and articles to help.
Although national tests aren't happening this year, this collection of resources will help you to plan lessons to support and assess learning in KS1 and KS2.
While exams aren't going ahead this summer, your KS4 students will still need to recap and consolidate their learning. This collection of assessment and revision resources will help.
These diagnostic, formative and summative assessment resources will help you to check student knowledge and understanding so you know where to focus learning.
Designed for teachers at all levels, this flexible course will teach you how to effectively question in the classroom so you can thoroughly check pupil understanding.
This comprehensive collection of revision templates will help you to support your learners with consolidating their knowledge and preparing for assessments across a range of subjects and topics.
The catch-up narrative may be dominating the political agenda but a slower approach may reap longer-term benefits, finds Dan Worth.
After the relative freedom of remote learning some students may struggle with being back in a classroom. These resources will help you to create and maintain a positive and calm learning environment.
Being back in school after a year of lockdowns and disrupted learning is another upheaval that could cause a rise in low-level disruption. Elena Diaz has some advice for tackling it.
If you're looking to develop your confidence to handle any increase in challenging behaviour, this course will provide you with a number of effective classroom management strategies and techniques.
Are you worried about voice strain as you return to face-to-face teaching? This course will help you to speak clearly and confidently without shouting, to hold pupils' attention and better manage behaviour.
Even with schools fully reopen, the pandemic will continue to have an impact on health and wellbeing. These activities, challenges and lessons will help you to keep your students calm and engaged.
As everyone returns to school, these resources from Mentally Healthy Schools will help primary school staff to better understand, promote and support their pupils' mental health and wellbeing as well as their own.
With your pupils facing the challenge of getting back on track with school and studies, this course will help you to re-shape the way they think about learning, embrace challenge and keep going when things get tough.
More of your students may be suffering from mental health issues after lockdown. This course will help you to recognise some of the signs and symptoms, and provide practical advice on how to support them.
As well as going through the disruption of the pandemic, some of your pupils may have lost a loved one. This course will help you to understand the effects of death and grief on a young person and the support that needs to be in place.
The experiences of the last year have made us all more aware of the necessity of looking after our mental health. These courses will help you to understand important issues including self-harm, low mood and depression and anxiety.
Whether you're a TA, HLTA or other member of support staff, we know how hard you've worked throughout lockdown, stepping up to support pupils in school and to teach small groups remotely.
Now that you know you can teach and lead, why not build on your experience to further your career as a TA or to become a qualified teacher? With both our Teaching Assistant Apprenticeship and Straight to Teaching programme you can take your next step while you continue to work at your school.
Our Level 3 Teaching Assistant Apprenticeship will provide you with the pedagogy and expert support to become a more confident practitioner, take a more active role in supporting pupils to make good progress and create a positive, nurturing, safe learning environment. Suitable for staff working in both primary and secondary phases, in mainstream or specialist settings, it will enable you to gain a nationally recognised qualification at little or no cost to your school.
Our Straight to Teaching programme will prepare you for qualified teacher status (QTS) assessment via our Assessment Only route. It’s a high quality, low-cost route to becoming a qualified teacher that’s personalised to you and your school. Delivered through a mix of in-school experience and online learning and theory, it will enable you to develop your teaching and prepare a portfolio of evidence to demonstrate that you meet the English Teachers’ Standards.
Coronavirus: software and support to keep your school running smoothly
As the coronavirus pandemic continues, we're here to provide your school community with everything you need, from helping to ensure your classrooms are Covid-safe, to supporting blended learning and looking after everyone's wellbeing.
