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Improving vocabulary for primary pupils

Blog
21 Feb 2023
Michelle Nicholson discusses our Spring Conference, Word Utopia, which aims to be a celebration of language and lexicon for the primary phase.
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Reading at Key Stage 1 – What might we do and how might we do it?

Blog
29 Sep 2020
Kathy Roe shares some strategies for supporting children with reading in Key Stage 1.
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Marky McMarkface: let’s talk about feedback

Blog
28 Feb 2019
Sophie MacNeill explores some ways to shake up feedback to make it more efficient and effective in terms of teacher workload and pupil progress
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KS2 Reading Fluency Project: text selection guidance

Blog
05 Feb 2020
Reading fluency - selecting texts with the power to turn around a reluctant upper key stage 2 reader can be a challenge... 
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EdTech in schools

Our specialist EdTech advisers at HFL Education have a wealth of knowledge and experience to help you to identify the right education technology solutions for your school or academy.
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Integrating AI into your daily operations as school leaders

News
29 Nov 2024
We can’t ignore AI, it’s here to stay, and to be honest, it can be very useful.
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Introducing environmental issues to children

Blog
14 Jul 2021
This is our moment. We cannot turn back time. But we can grow trees, green our cities, re-wild our gardens, change our diets and clean up rivers and coasts. We are the generation that can make peace with nature. Let’s get active, not anxious. Let’s be bold, not timid #Generationrestoration
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Voices from the classroom: Oak View Primary and Nursery HCC recycling visit 17th April 2023

Blog
05 Jun 2023
Children from Oak View Primary and Nursery School welcomed Monika from HCC to discuss how we can become better at recycling.
Preparing for the 2022 KS2 Reading SATs: unpicking challenge in non-fiction texts

Preparing for the 2022 KS2 Reading SATs: unpicking challenge in non-fiction texts

Blog
11 Jan 2022
As schools around the country begin to prepare pupils for the KS2 Reading SATs, we hope this guidance – looking at indicators of perfectly pitched non-fiction in line with the challenge of the KS2 test – offers some helpful support.
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Key Stage 2 Reading SATs: skills for the final stretch

Blog
31 Mar 2023
A blog to give you some last-minute practical pointers to get your Year 6s reading SATs-ready.