Metacognition

Maeve Quinn of The Douay Martyrs Catholic Secondary School uncovers the crucial aspects of metacognition and how they can be applied to any educational environment, to improve the ways learners monitor and purposefully direct their learning

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Bringing courageous conversations about race into the classroom

In January this year, Lyfta launched their first ever CPD course on diversity, equity and inclusion. In this blog Anna Szpakowska, Professional Development Lead at Lyfta, shares the insights that were unearthed about how best to lead courageous conversations about race.

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Opportunity for all? Reflections on the white paper

SSAT Senior Education Leads representing our networks in all phases shared their thoughts on the White Paper earlier this week. Sylvia King captures these reflections in this blog.

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Upskilling Students and Staff in the Cognitive Science of Learning to support a Mastery Curriculum

St John The Baptist School, Woking Over the last six years SJB has focused on developing and implementing a mastery approach for teachers to support their move towards a mastery curriculum. Through their work researching and trialling strategies for a
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Teachers and schools have never been more important

As we come to the end of the Spring Term, I have been reflecting on the work that teachers have been during the last two years. Everyone who is associated with or works in a school knows that the pandemic
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Pauline Holbrook, Head of SEND shares her initial reflections on the SEND Green Paper published 29th March

The green paper sets out proposals to ensure that every child and young person has their needs identified quickly and met more consistently, with support that is determined by their needs and not by where they live. I don’t think
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It would be so different if we were in charge…

Alex Galvin, Senior Education Lead, asks the question: ‘What would you do if you were the Secretary of State for Education?’. Find out what school leaders and the team at SSAT would put on their priority list. There has been
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Connecting and collaborating

Corinne Settle and Alex Galvin reflect on what it means to ‘reset’ and how the focus needs to be on connection and collaboration.

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Working with boys to make a stand against violence

Falinge Park School investigates the complexities of 'honour-based' violence and to develop training around ‘honour-based’ abuse and violence (HBAV) and raising awareness.

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Ground Source Heat Pump

A year 8 student from Comberton Village College explains how a project to make heating the school more sustainable has been good for the environment and good for learning. The Ground Source Heat Pump (GSHP) project is a big step
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