E-bulletins

Welcome to our growing library of e-bulletin extracts, taken from SENCO Week, Behaviour Matters and CPD Week. Our e-bulletins are delivered direct to the inboxes of 1000s of education professionals every week during term-time. For information, guidance and practical tips, scroll down the page for the most recently added extracts, or browse the e-bulletins or topics using the menus on the right.

Success in teaching thinking programmes: 7 key classroom strategies

We explore the idea of ‘teaching thinking’ and key questions and concerns about how something as complex as ‘thinking’ can be described in order to make it accessible and visible for colleagues and students

Primary Assembly: The release of Columbian hostage Ingrid Betancourt

The release of Colombian presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt after six and a half years (2,321 days) as a hostage in the Colombian rain forest is something to celebrate, and is also an opportunity to discuss the use of violence as a means of coercion

Enrichment Activities: Entertainment in the summer holidays

This week's ezine looks at activities to entertain pupils in their holidays, as well as whether video games are a good source of entertainment for young people

The importance of tailored inductions for NQTs

This week we discuss the importance of supporting a teacher's early professional development, and the new guidance for the induction of NQTs

Secondary assembly: A positive frame of mind

In this assembly Brian Radcliffe invites students to consider what might lie behind a happy lifestyle, and discusses Professor Richard Layard's governmental research on the state of the nation's happiness

Behaviour Matters: Try the 'antiseptic bounce-back' technique!

The antiseptic bounce-back technique is great for managing low-level interventions and is most effective when used in partnership with a colleague

Planning parent workshops

We all know how valuable it is to have parents ‘on board’ in terms of supporting their children and reinforcing what school is trying to do. For pupils with SEN, this is especially important

Primary Assembly: The friend you didn’t know you had

This year is the centenary of the 1908 Children Act, which set the legal standard for child protection, setting out principles that we now take for granted. It was largely the responsibility of Herbert Samuel, a young under secretary of state who later became leader of the Liberal Party

Online learning for teachers

This week we explore the benefits of online learning and the best ways to make it work for your school

Secondary Assembly: Think again

This week’s assembly examines our love of ‘the way things are’. It explores ways in which we like a certain degree of predictability about our life and how an unpredictable life might be troublesome, as well as the importance of occasionally welcoming change

Newsflash

We have just launched the Learning & Thinking Skills e-bulletin which will provide you with strategies and guidance for effective learning and thinking at key stages 3 to 5. Published fortnightly, it will cover topics including: learning preferences, thinking skills, creativity, problem solving and group work. Click to read the first issue of Learning and Thinking Skills.

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