Adoptive parent and education leader, Sean Harris, considers some of the strategies and language that can be helpful to teachers when teaching adopted children and working with adoptive families
More than 90% of children who are excluded at primary school and 77% of those who are suspended do not go on to get a Grade 4 or higher in their GCSE English and maths exams.
With exams season upon us, this edition of the SecEd Webinar offered practical tips and strategies to help you support your students with their preparation, revision and wellbeing.
Do you see a problem child in your classroom – or do you see a child with a problem? Do your vulnerable learners wonder what they will be walking into each day in your school? Steven Russell considers...
Teacher supply at secondary level is in a “critical state” and represents a “substantial risk to the quality of education” in England as recruitment shortfalls show no sign of easing.
Persistent absence, poverty, SEND, behaviour, and exclusion – SecEd’s annual vulnerable learners supplement once again offers 20 pages of expert advice, insights, ideas, and case studies written by...
Increasingly strained relationships with families are affecting school attendance, with school leaders concerned about the number of parental disputes they are seeing.
Students in years 9 and 10, disadvantaged young people, and those with SEN are among the groups most likely to receive the new £80 fines for persistent absence.
Many students will arrive in year 7 with unidentified speech, language, and communication needs – and the older they get the harder they are to identify. We speak to Louise Burton, a speech and...
More than a quarter of year 6 pupils arrive in secondary school behind the ‘expected standard’ for reading. Tiffnie Harris offers 10 approaches that will help these young people to catch up
