We all know now that the UK general election is set for July 4th and there is a strong feeling that the Labour Party under Sir Keir Starmer will end fourteen years of Conservative rule. What will this...
We’re not far off the end of the academic year and, at Elea High Online School, we are deep into the exam season with our students taking IGCSE, IAL and EOQ qualifications at the moment. With so...
If you were to look at the UK news these days there are regular articles about the state of the UK’s schools whether it’s a recruitment crisis, behavioural issues, problems over crumbling buildings or...
One of the most important but often overlooked aspect of education is communication. I don’t mean the ability of students to communicate but that there is open communication between the stakeholders...
There has been a minor revolution in the world of International GCSEs and it’s a change that will have a profound effect on students studying for their examinations and the outcomes of them. Until...
Scroll back three years to the first time schools closed because of the pandemic and, try as hard as we could, it was very difficult to achieve the same standard of education online compared to that...
As I’ve noted in previous blogs, there are many reasons why online education is a good choice for parents and students. Yesterday, in conversation with a prospective parents, I was made aware of...
This week I’m turning my thoughts to something personal to our school. Months of work was spent by our team preparing us for the relaunch of Elea High Online School this September and, as the first...
In this post I want to consider how we would identify what a great teacher is. I guess the easy answer is the one that gets the grades and in UK schools, it’s all about getting the grades but...
