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...

The UK Labour Party has identified oracy as a weakness that is impacting young peoples’ development and their employment prospects and intends to address the issue through an oracy curriculum...

Mention classroom management these days and quite often the link will be made to the phrase ‘managing behaviour in the classroom’. Of course, the term is wider ranging than this, but the issue of...