Bridging the transition: Seeing Every Student through change
Education Specialist Frances Kingston discusses the challenges in the transition from primary to secondary and how our solutions can help.
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From identification to empowerment: a graduated approach to SEND
Education Specialist Emma Dibden outlines the challenges for inclusive SEND provision in mainstream schools and suggests some solutions.
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Too many questions, too little time? How to manage maths curriculum overload
Education Specialist Andy Small explains how maths anxiety and curriculum overload can be tackled by using targeted assessments and teaching and learning tools.
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We need to talk about talking: a step-by-step approach to language development
Education Specialist Georgina Cook explains how tools like WellComm, myON, Accelerated Reader and PASS help to develop children's language and literacy skills.
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How NGRT has helped unlock personalised reading support at Maes Y Morfa Primary School
Louise Jones, Headteacher at Maes Y Morfa Community Primary School, tells how GL Assessment’s NGRT reshaped literacy and empowered staff with better support.
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Using proven data to support and report progress at St Mary’s Diocesan School in Ireland
Explore St Mary’s Diocesan School's use of CAT4, NGRT, PASS and the PT Series to reduce teacher workload, meet requirements for inspection and support pupils.
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Episode 14: Intentional SEND Leadership – a UK and international perspective
We discuss inclusion and leadership with David Bartram OBE, Director of Prescient Education, and Berna Bouwer, Corporate Head of Inclusion at GEMS Education.
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Episode 13: The value of standardised assessments – top tips on how to utilise school data
We join the dots on the value of standardised assessments with our special guest Becky St. John, a school assessment and performance data specialist.
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Episode 12: Mastering maths assessment – getting the right support to the right students
We focus on the key topic of mathematics in schools and explain the New Group Maths Test with Andy Small, our Assessment Specialist for Numeracy & Mathematics.
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Episode 11: Teacher wellbeing – a headteacher and ECT perspective
We discuss the important topic of school wellbeing with Kathryn Wilson of Randwick CofE Primary School and Jordan Connell of Hampton Gardens Secondary School.
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Careful Calculation: Addressing maths anxiety in the classroom
Explore our latest report on maths education, revealing key challenges like maths anxiety and gender confidence gaps in learning.
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Reluctant Readers
Explore our latest report from secondary teachers on why reading reluctance is a growing problem and what you can do to help
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The impact of the pandemic on attainment two years on
Read our latest analysis of attainment trends during Covid, based on data from the Progress Test Series, NGRT and NGST.
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Crunched by numbers? What schools can do to reduce the data burden
Exploring how effective data can reduce teacher workload.
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SEND Searchlights: Engagement and Wellbeing
This episode will focus on attendance and wellbeing. Engagement remains a top priority for schools, with some experiencing lower attendance...
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SEND Searchlights: Early Intervention, Quality Teaching, and Targeted Support
In this episode, we focused on how wellbeing can impact engagement and discussed some effective strategies to support improvement in...
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Big changes to CAT4 on paper – What you need to know
Discover the upcoming changes to CAT4 paper tests: improvement marking and scoring, why updates were made, and what schools need to do.
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SEND Searchlights: Supporting multiple transition periods
In this webinar we explored: The experiences of learners who navigate multiple transition periods throughout their educational journey Effective approaches...
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Teaching Times – Lost for Words: Why oracy skills are crucial for children
Georgina Cook explains the challenges facing teachers and the oracy strategies they can use to overcome them.
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The Independent – Children are increasingly starting primary school struggling to talk, teachers have warned
In a new survey by GL Assessment, nine in ten primary school teachers said that children’s speech and language issues have worsened since 2020.
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Schools Week – More children start school with poor speech and language skills, warn teachers
Teaching has become more difficult because of a rise in pupils starting school with poor speech and language skills since the start of the Covid pandemic.
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Tes – Worsening speech and language skills make teaching more difficult, study finds
According to our Lost for Words report, nearly half of primary teachers say more pupils are struggling to communicate at the expected level for their age.