Contents Dear Reader,
Welcome to the latest issue of Education Today. After the excitement of September and the beginning of a new school year, now seems to be a good time to start looking ahead to the changes which are due to take effect in the next couple of years across both primary and secondary sectors. English Language is one of the first subjects to be changed as part of the government’s GCSE reform. New-style GCSE and A level courses in English Language will be taught from September 2015 and first examined in June 2017. Helen Cunningham, publishing director at Cambridge University Press, outlines the changes and the support on offer for teaching and learning these new qualifications, in her ongoing series on the changes to the secondary curriculum.
Meanwhile, Graham Cooper, Head of Product Strategy at Capita SIMS, offers his take on the move to assessment without levels across the primary sector – a subject he and I tackled, incidentally, in the first of a new series of Education Today hosted webinars, a recorded version of which is available to view on our website. If you are involved in primary education, I’d urge you to watch it – not to hear from me, obviously, but to listen to Graham’s excellent advice and to use the resources he outlined at the end of the presentation to prepare your schools for this shake-up in the way pupil progress is measured and assessed. Elsewhere in the issue, we have an opinion piece from Alison Watson, MD of classofyourown, which offers a counterpoint to regular contributor Kirsty Bertenshaw’s thoughts last month on getting girls into STEM. Two viewpoints with the same aim – to encourage more girls into those subject areas. Kirsty’s regular column this month asks “Who is STEM for anyway?” A good question, and one with an important answer – everyone!
I’m also very pleased to welcome Sue Jones from Penketh High School in Warrington to this issue. In our main feature, she offers 10 top tips for improving your fundraising efforts in school. In our second feature, we hear from Keith Wright of Bluewave.SWIFT on a new approach to classroom observation. I hope you find both as useful as I did. Remember, you can keep in touch with us via Twitter, Facebook and our homepage, as well as by phone and email. We always like to hear from you so please do get in touch! Enjoy the issue.
Jonathan Swift – Managing Editor
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In this issue... 4-13 NEWS
News from the UK education sector 14 COLUMNISTS
Insight and advice on from regular columnists Graham Cooper and Kirsty Bertenshaw
15-20 VIEWS AND OPINION
Featuring analysis and insight from the UK education sector
21 LESSON OBSERVATION: A NEW APPROACH
With Keith Wright of Bluewave.SWIFT October 2014
28-31 BUILDINGS, MAINTENANCE, REFURBISHMENT & DESIGN
Including news from Elliott and Polyflor 32 CATERING
Including news from Accent Catering
22-23 VIEW FROM THE CLASSROOM
With Donna Trusler, Principal at The Manor Academy, Nottinghamshire
24-25 10 TOP TIPS FOR SCHOOL FUNDRAISING
With Sue Jones from Penketh High School in Warrington
26 COMPETITION
A chance to win a suite of Epson products worth £7,500 for your school!
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