Back to School…in March
It is not often that we write a back to school blog multiple times in one academic year. This feels like a new year started, however, for many teachers as children went back to...
Author: Greenhouse
School website requirements February 2021
Schools are now required to publish details of their remote education provision on their school website. It is intended to support understanding of what pupils and parents should expect during periods of school closure...
Lockdown Learning? Let’s mix it up!
Want to make home learning a bit more varied and allow pupils a bit of choice, and maybe a bit of fun too? Or perhaps even before lockdown you were using a “takeaway menu”...
How are you doing this?!
This morning I watched my son’s teacher expertly handle 17 Year 2 children on a Zoom call. Teaching them the possessive apostrophe within 30 minutes when all they wanted to do was show off...
Starting 2021 off on the right foot
Where do we start to move on from 2020? Well…baby steps. With everything changing at a pace there are some things we can do to ensure our school website, and other jobs, are ready...
The Very Best of 2020
Let’s face it, 2020 has not been the year any of us planned or expected. We have all been speaking all year in phrases we would all love to ban from the lexicon –...
School website requirements November 2020
On November 12th, the DfE dropped a major update to their guidance on what maintained schools must publish online, which for nearly every school means what they must publish on their school website. We’ve...
Wondrous Websites in a Wayward World
Do you remember when you thought ‘Zoom’ was just a word the children would say when playing with spaceships? When remote learning was confined to Open University courses, and blended learning meant reciting times...
