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World Book Day: promoting inclusion and nurturing a sense of belonging by reflecting SEND needs in our book choices

Blog
06 Mar 2024
With World Book Day approaching, we encourage you to think about how you can use this event to promote inclusion.
Pupils in class

Whole class guided reading in KS2: Finding the right balance for all children (Part 2: Selecting texts & mapping text potential)

Blog
05 Mar 2024
This blog, the second in a series of three, looks at how to judge and decide upon books that are suitable for whole class guided reading in key stage 2, through mapping the potential of a text, as well as how to consider a wide variety of text types to support all-important background knowledge.
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Teacher Encounters Programme – Herts teachers go behind the scenes at Sky Studios Elstree

News
04 Mar 2024
HFL Education has teamed up with Sky Studios Elstree for a special event to help teachers from all over Hertfordshire understand what it takes for their students to get into careers in the media.
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ESSENTIALmaths v2.0 - we've done our homework!

News
01 Mar 2024
Our Maths advisers have been listening to feedback and working hard to make our ESSENTIALmaths subscription even better for supporting teachers in the classroom.
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Making the switch – a guide to teaching with your Chromebook

Blog
29 Feb 2024
For teachers moving to Chromebooks as their main teaching device, this handy guide from HFL Education will show them what they need to know to get started.
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Primary subject leaders – puzzled about Early Years?

Blog
28 Feb 2024
Subject leadership in primary schools can be a challenge with a full teaching schedule. Do you feel confident talking about your subject in the early years?
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Why are my children in Key Stage two still using their fingers to calculate?

Blog
27 Feb 2024
An exploration of when finger counting can be instrumental to pupils’ understanding of number and when it can become prohibitive to their mental fluency in KS2 maths.
primary girl and boy sitting at a desk together

Developing mental maths strategies

Innovative programmes that will help ensure KS2and KS3 pupils know their base facts, have a range of mental calculation strategies, and can use and apply their knowledge to a wider fluency range.
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Launch of the Twin-Track Apprenticeship Toolkit

News
19 Feb 2024
Our Post-16 team have been working with the Hertfordshire Careers Hub and the Careers and Enterprise Company on the new Twin-Track Apprenticeship Toolkit.
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Safeguarding – it’s non-negotiable

Blog
14 Feb 2024
This blog touches upon recent developments in safeguarding including an update from Ofsted on its approach to inspection and looks in more detail at the school Single Central Record (SCR) and the collective responsibility of governors for safeguarding.