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9 May 2016
Violent Toddlers

The violence of children as young as one has become rampant, so many nurseries have had to expel so many children due to biting other children and attacking the nursery staff. Statistics released by the Department for Education, showed that about 30 children under the age of four or under were expelled in September 2013 and a further 70 […]

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9 May 2016
Five year olds, who speak better, do better

According to research, children who can’t speak properly by the age of five have been said to be more likely to fail their SATS when they are older. Five year olds who were behind in their language skills were six times less likely to achieve good English SATS by age 11. This English language disability also affects other subjects […]

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4 May 2016
UNICEF : desperate call for children in need

75 million school-age children in crisis areas around the world are in desperate need of educational support. As I’m sure you are aware, many children live in countries affected by humanitarian crises. In Syria, 5 years of civil war have left around 6 thousand schools out of use, whist in Ukraine, the conflict has destroyed […]

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27 April 2016
London 11 Year olds in school crisis

Thursday’s Daily Standard reports that more than 28,000 London children will miss out on their first choice of secondary school this year. Last year, nearly 27,000 children were not given a place at their preferred school, and education specialists predict this number will rise by roughly 1,000 this year. Tuesday next week is National Offer […]

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27 April 2016
Top universities handed low marks for teaching

Students at some of Britain’s leading Universities have been extremely critical of the quality of teaching they have been receiving. Bristol,  Edinburgh. King’s College London, Glasgow and the London School of Economics rank amongst the bottom 10 for academic feedback on student’s work despite belonging to the Russell Group of top British research universities. Scottish […]

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27 April 2016
Funding and cuts

This year, heads and teachers will really begin to feel the squeeze as their budgets are tightened…even more than last year - and even more than the year before that. Education is an area most picked on. The area politicians can cut down on the most because they can rely on the loyalty and skill […]

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27 April 2016
Do babies have a ‘Social Brain’?

The capacity to engage and communicate in a social world, is one defining the characteristics of the human species. Adults have special areas of the brain, sometimes referred to as the ‘social brain’, which respond to different human actions, such as eye, mouth and hand movements. We interpret how sociable and communicative these movements are. […]

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27 April 2016
Old-style classroom teaching

The Government’s school behaviour chief has called for a return on children putting their hands up in class to answer a question. Ludicrous as it may sound, this practice has been banned in some schools. Hands up has been going out of fashion for a long time. For the last 10 years, there has been […]

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27 April 2016
Suh or SSSS for the word ‘snake’ ?

How do you teach your children phonetics? Children are now learning to read with Synthetic Phonics and are learning a new way of saying the letter sounds. Whichever way the children are taught, whether it be through jolly phonics, letters and sounds or other phonic programmes, a whole new generation is growing up on ‘nnnn’ […]

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27 April 2016
Childcare and schools

On another education related post, a recent news story highlights the Education Secretary’s call for Schools to Provide Childcare. ‘Reasonable steps’ should be taken to provide childcare for the whole length of the working day  - including term time and holidays! What a wonderful thought I’m sure you’re thinking! Parents are to be given the […]

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