As Covid-19 continued to disrupt education across the world, students, teachers – and exam boards – faced difficult decisions on how to approach the Summer 2021 exam series. Jamie Kirkaldy, Head of Teaching and Learning Support for OxfordAQA , an international exam board offering International GCSEs, AS and A-levels, explores how OxfordAQA approached this decision and […]
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Alison Borthwick, international education and mathematics consultant, world-class trainer, inspirational teacher, keynote speaker, and author, reviews MathsBeat, Oxford’s digitally-led maths mastery resource.
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I will forever remember the academic year 2020-21. Not for the lockdowns, or the bubbles bursting; not for the lateral flow tests or constant sanitising; not for the masks and visors, or contact tracing. No, as memorable as Covid has been, I will remember, with relish, the year marking as we know it we came […]
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Catch up on the key takeaways from the opening panel in our Maths Adventure webinar series where our experts considered the impact of independent learning and home teaching on students’ confidence in maths.
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Without a doubt, recent events have propelled student wellbeing into the spotlight. I’ve seen with my own eyes how even a ‘happy go lucky and adaptable’ five-year-old can struggle after months locked away from her newly found school friends with just her middle-aged parents to interact and play with! (I won’t even mention the effect […]
Read moreBy Jennifer Chang Wathall Have you ever been in the situation where your students come to class a little too energetic to be able to focus on the task at hand? Or when your students arrive from a break or lunch and they are just not ready for the learning space? Perhaps your students, based […]
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This year, as with last year, we are shrouded in uncertainty about what we’ll be able to do when focusing on transition this year between KS2 and KS3. Rules and roadmaps are being rolled out and put in place. However we are all aware this may change and leave us needing to adapt more traditional […]
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We still don’t know the full impact that COVID-19 has had on children’s education, but we do know that the more children read, the better equipped they are for school and more importantly life. So now more than ever, it’s important to keep children reading during this last term and over the summer. Here are 5 easy ideas from Camilla Macoun, Founder of The Bear Can Read, to share with your families to keep the reading momentum up at home.
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At the recent Black British History event hosted by Miranda Kaufmann and SOAS, University of London , OUP’s History Publisher (Secondary Education) spoke with other authors and publishers about how history textbooks get made. We thought it would be useful to share the information here as well, and let you know how to get in touch if you’re interested in writing […]
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Each workbook in the Get It Right: Boost Your Vocabulary series offers targeted support for exanding students’ vocabulary and addressing the word gap by exploring ambitious words in context and unpicking layers of meaning, resulting in more confident readers and articulate writers. Here are five reasons why your school should try the Get It Right: […]
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