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Elastik Learning today announced an exciting new three-year partnership with Bedford Borough Council to provide support for primary schools in the Local Authority through Elastik Learning’s gap analysis platform which uses data from formative and summative assessments to help schools focus on effective and timely interventions. Acting Director of Education at Bedford Borough Council, Chris […]

The Elastik team took a deep-dive into the 2022 GCSE results to bring you the highlights – and suggest what they might mean for your school and education more widely. How did the results live up to regulator forecasts? There were sighs of relief last week as the GCSE results were announced in the UK. […]

Troy Sharpe, Head teacher at St Andrews and St Francis explains how Elastik’s online assessment platform is helping every child to progress.   At St Andrews and St Francis we began our Elastik journey with our Year 5 students. Across the country this cohort is a priority group, particularly with the Department for Education’s ambitious […]

Historically, school leaders have had to weigh up the clear benefits that ongoing assessment provides with the practical challenges that they present. Troy Sharpe, head teacher at St Andrew and St Francis Primary School in the London Borough of Brent talks about how Elastik has changed that landscape at the school. Assessment in schools is […]

Many school leadership teams are attracted to the idea of introducing an assessment platform. They can see how it will support whole school improvement and to support the needs of individual students. However, they don’t want to overload their staff with new systems at critical times in the year. The challenge is that schools are […]

Progress tests are a core tool in a Prep School’s strategy for achieving outstanding results – and ensuring students perform to their best in the 11 plus. They are widely used to benchmark achievement and to measure attainment – student by student, class by class, year by year. However, just because progress tests are often […]

Personalised learning – where teachers really understand each child they work with – is important in any school. The human connection between teacher and student is crucial to learning, helping students trust their teachers, helping teachers inspire their students. For an international school with a culturally and linguistically diverse intake of students, and high academic […]

As teachers, we want all our students to reach their potential. But balancing the range of learning needs in a classroom can be a tough task and this is often challenging when you need to consider high ability pupils as well. It’s a common assumption that schools only turn to assessment platforms when they’re faced […]

Which are you more scared of – snakes or maths? According to research by the University of Cambridge, “Many children and adults experience feelings of anxiety, apprehension, tension or discomfort when confronted by a maths problem.” While it’s easy for children to avoid the reptile house at the zoo, numbers and maths are everywhere. From telling the […]

Multi-academy trusts are one of the key strands of the Government’s plans to drive up standards in education and achieve their goals in literacy and numeracy. ‘By 2030, all children will benefit from being taught in a family of schools, with their school in a strong multi academy trust or with plans to join or […]

Whether you are up to your eyes in SATS, running interventions in the run up to GCSEs or preparing your students for their year-end exams, it won’t have escaped your notice that high stakes assessments are back in schools, even if COVID-related absences continue.  Exams can make this time of year stressful for students and […]

The summer term is here. As well as better weather and longer days – for Year 2 and Year 6 teachers and pupils, it also brings the stress of SATs. Teaching to the test is not pleasant for staff or students.  We know that it can lead to demotivated, burnt-out students and teachers who are […]