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The mental health awareness charity Nip in the Bud works with professionals to produce FREE online short films and fact sheets to help primary school teachers, parents and others working with children to recognise potential mental health conditions.

Arts bytes is a national EdTech programme that utilises a bespoke, immersive, virtual gallery to offer young participants the opportunity to see their art exhibited online.

At Shireland Collegiate Academy, we have come to the end of our two year Embedding Formative Assessment Programme. At the end of our first year, we saw that teachers valued the programme and could see a difference in their classrooms when being consistent with the use of whole class response systems; embedded use of WALTs and WILFs; and a school-wide ‘no hands up’ strategy.

Invicta Grammar School has just become one of only three schools nationally who have been recognised for ‘transforming’ practice in all 12 strands of the SSAT Framework for Exceptional Education.

St Andrew’s Catholic School in Leatherhead, Surrey has just become one of only three schools nationally to be recognised for ‘transforming’ practice in all 12 strands of SSAT’s Framework for Exceptional Education.

Did you know that children with a learning disability are 28 times more likely than children without a learning disability, to have a serious sight problem?

The 2023 OxWell Student Survey for non-mainstream schools (specialising in SEN) is now live and will run from June to December 2023.

Sitting in my office writing this article feels rather surreal. This is likely to be my last piece that I write for SSAT. Earlier in the year I was interviewed for a book on leadership. The author asked me about my style.

Last weekend The Guardian published a piece by John Harris about the teachers’ strike. As usual, he made some astute observations. He highlights the extent to which teachers’ pay has decreased in real terms (20% since 2010) and key data
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SSAT’s Leadership Legacy Project has been a core part of our membership offer for several years now. It is designed to support teachers who are in the early stages of their career and showing clear leadership potential. As schools start
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