Summer Learning Loss
by 10ticks
Posted on August 2, 2016 at 14:43
The summer holidays are now well underway, which means you are currently enjoying that there are currently no uniforms to wash or any school lunches to pack. The summer break is a time for fun and relaxation, but it’s also a time when children’s academic gains that they make throughout the year are lost.
When the school doors close for the summer, many children struggle to access educational opportunities. Summer Learning Loss (or Summer Brain Drain) is the loss in academi...
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Action Maths
by Ian Fisher
Posted on May 18, 2016 at 09:02
Every year we try to do something a little bit special. This year we have done something a big bit special. We have been busy writing our Action Maths – that’s active maths with a pulse, the new superfood for mathematics.
To begin, I must go back to the last century (yes that long ago), when as a youn...
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What is Summer Learning Loss?
by 10tick
Posted on July 28, 2015 at 12:44
Summer is an ideal time for students of all ages to strengthen their academic skills while still having plenty of time left over for summer activities.
When the school doors close for the summer, many children struggle to access educational opportunities. Summer Brain Drain is another term for learning loss and is the loss in academic skills and knowledge over the course of summer holidays. On average, children lose about 2.6 months’ worth of grade level equivalency in mathemati...
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Further GCSE Reforms to be Introduced to "set every child up for life"
by 10ticks
Posted on June 17, 2015 at 12:42
Education Secretary Nicky Morgan will insist that all pupils study the English Baccalaureate (EBacc) subjects up until the age of 16. At present, only 39 per cent do - itself up from 22 per cent when the EBacc measure was first introduced in 2010 by her predecessor Michael Gove. This means that every pupil in Secondary School will have to study the five core academic subjects; English, maths, science, languages and geography or history up to GCSE level as a result of radical refor...
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Schools that ban mobile phones see better academic results
by 10ticks
Posted on May 22, 2015 at 12:46
Banning mobile phones from schools saves one week's worth of learning per pupil over an academic year, it has been claimed.
According to new research by Louis-Philippe Beland and Richard Murphy, published by the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics, the effect of banning mobile phones from school premises adds up to the equivalent of an extra week’s schooling over a pupil’s academic year, according to research schools whi...
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GCSE maths papers to be changed amid concerns over difficulty
by 10ticks
Posted on May 22, 2015 at 12:45
Exam boards have been ordered to change new GCSE maths papers just a few months before students are due to study them, amid concerns they are too tough.
There is a "significant risk" that assessments drawn up by three awarding bodies will be too difficult for the full range of pupils' abilities, according to research by Ofqual. Ofqual analysed the results of 4,000 mock tests of sample papers for GCSEs due to be studied in schools next t...
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Should Pupils be allowed to use Google when sitting GCSE and A-level exams?
by 10ticks
Posted on April 30, 2015 at 12:48
Pupils should be allowed to use Google when sitting GCSE and A-level exams to adapt to the way they learn, according to Mark Dawe, the OCR exam board chief executive.
Introducing tools like Google or calculators will help teachers assess the way students draw on information and apply it to their learning. Mark said everyone has Google available to them and students will only have a limited amount of time to conduct online searches anyway.
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Should maths be taught from state-approved textbooks?
by 10ticks
Posted on February 24, 2015 at 12:51
Is England moving closer to having pupils taught maths through “state-approved” textbooks, modelled on those used in China and Singapore? That is the fear among some attendees of a meeting earlier this month, when the DfE told education publishers it wanted to see the introduction of a “quality framework” against which maths textbooks could be assessed.
One version of what this might look like has already been devised by the government-funded...
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