Guest post by the National Literacy Trust World Book Day isn’t just about putting together a great costume idea, it’s about showing children the power of reading. Reading lets children discover new worlds, meet new people and learn about the …
Schools across the UK and Ukraine are coming together in an exciting new partnership focused on sharing stories and promoting reading for pleasure. The programme, part of the 100-Year Partnership between the two countries, aims to create connections between school …
Sharing books with babies and toddlers helps to inspire a lifelong love of reading. Reading can be a fun thing to do together and have a positive impact later in life, on things like school exam results, pupil wellbeing, and …
Today’s Education in the Media blog focuses on the start of National Apprenticeship Week, as well as the Schools Minister talking about World Book Day.
Today’s Education in the Media blog looks at an incredibly misleading report on bids for the Selective School Expansion fund and news stories on how we are encouraging children to become lifelong readers.
Today’s Education in the Media looks at reading literacy standards for pupils in England.
Today’s Education in the Media blog looks at an Ofqual review into Key Stage 2 tests. Ofqal report on SATs On Thursday, 5 October, Ofqual published an evaluation of the Standards and Testing Agency’s approach to developing the new Key …
Schools Minister Nick Gibb has written on the results of this year's phonics screening check, which show a continued rise in pupils meeting the expected reading standard. In 2012, just...
...but we’re doing that because we are committed to ensuring opportunity for all. Tests should not be a cause of stress for pupils - they are there to help...
Today’s news review looks at coverage of Key Stage 2 statistics, claims that graduate vacancies have fallen and school uniform costs.