Independent: Teachers fear Year 6 are emotionally unprepared for secondary school
Teachers say pupils will need more support with behaviour, basic literacy and numeracy skills because of the pandemic.
Press articles
We’re regularly featured in the education media. From interviews with us as part of a topical article, to opinion pieces by our colleagues and reviews of our assessments, you’ll find them all here.
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Teach Secondary magazine – Ask the Expert: That lightbulb moment
Our Head of Assessment Insights, James O’Brien, explains how GL Assessment’s Cognitive Abilities Test (CAT4) can help teachers spot students’ hidden potential.
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Tes – How to put our broken support system back together
Right to Succeed's Cradle to Career project has seen pupils in North Birkenhead make significant progress in reading with help from our New Group Reading Test.
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Tes – How a baseline reading test could transform whole-school literacy
Our New Group Reading Test is helping to boost reading and writing levels across South Shore Academy as part of the The Blackpool Key Stage 3 Literacy project.
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Education Today – Addressing one of the hidden costs of the pandemic – children’s speech and language development
Our Primary Lead, Sarah Abad Murillo, explains how WellComm Primary can help support children’s speech and language development in the aftermath of lockdown.
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Tes – How the pandemic is reshaping international education
New data from COBIS, in partnership with GL Education, reveals the new ways of working that international schools intend to keep in any post-pandemic world.
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Teachwire – Why I Love… The WellComm Primary Toolkit
Nicky Martin, Senior Inclusion Consultant at North Star Inclusion Advisory Team, explains how they have used the WellComm Primary Toolkit within their service.
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Teach Primary magazine – Ask the Expert: Get wellbeing right first
Our Director of Education discusses how best to support pupils this September after the pandemic disruption.
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Independent Education Today – Assessment in the time of Covid
How did independent schools use assessments during the lockdowns, and what lessons will they be taking into the new school year?
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Independent Education Today – What can the latest data tell us about students’ attitudes to school and learning in the independent sector?
Our Director of Education gives an insight into children’s wellbeing as schools emerge from lockdown.
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Tes – ‘Don’t overdo the doom’ on lockdown reading decline
Primary pupils have lost the equivalent of two months' reading ability over lockdown, according to GL Assessment's new report.
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Headteacher Update – Reading and literacy skills: Research offers reassuring picture of pandemic’s impact
We must not “overdo the doom” when talking about the impact of the pandemic on children’s reading ability and literacy, researchers have urged.