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...
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,...
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...
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...
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. ...
The government recently published its long-awaited Schools White Paper – the first in six years and the first released since the emergence of Covid-19. The Education Secretary, Nadhim Zahawi, positioned the paper as “levelling up in action”, with clear goals to raise...
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