Category: How To…
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Recipe for SUCCESS: HOW to Cook Up a STORM with an Off-the-Shelf Curriculum!

In this latest blog, delve into the innovative journey of integrating the Cornerstones Curriculum into individual schools so that you reflect your context and weave in your own magic to bring it to life. This blog explores how we, like masterchefs, have creatively adapted and seasoned standard educational ‘recipes’ to suit the unique tastes of…
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How To Succeed As An ECT: The Top Five Tips For Early Career Teachers

Starting out as an ECT can be as daunting as it is exciting! Here are some top tips for all those making their first brave steps into the wonderful world of teaching!
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The ULTIMATE Guide To Staff Meetings At School

There are loads of blogs and articles out there which give advice on the mechanics of running an effective staff meeting: let everyone know in good time, welcome everyone by name, share the successes… you get the picture. But did you know there are some fundamental steps you can take right now which will increase…
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How to run a virtual parents evening with Zoom…

If you are thinking of holding your next parents’ evening online, here is how Zoom can allow you to organise and arrange it
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FIVE Tricks To Take YOUR Remote Lessons To The Next Level

Much in the same way that I would write about what makes for effective teaching and learning in a classroom, this is what I have come to see as good practice in live online lessons in the schools that I run.
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Making Your Mark…

After assuming a new headship, it can still take some time before your decisions and priorities start to filter through and effect change at a whole school level. Is there any way of speeding this up so that you can start making your mark, without distancing or alienating your staff in the process?
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Manage your Emails to Cut Down your Workload

Maxim Kelly offers some practical tips for school leaders faced with email inboxes that threaten to consume their working hours…
