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7 ways to support parents and children with SATs

January 24, 2023January 24, 2023Oxford Primary 1 Comment

I’ve taught Year 6 many times in my career and memories of SATs week are all too fresh in my mind. Three hours and fifty minutes of silence will produce a snapshot of where our 11-year-olds are in reading, writing, mathematics and grammar, punctuation and spelling all summed up neatly as a scaled score. The […]

Tracking Student Progress: Using Data in International Schools

October 27, 2022October 27, 2022OxfordAQA
OxfordAQA's Head of Teaching and Learning Support discusses how international schools can use data to improve student progress

Data often gets something of a bad press in education. It is seen by some as a dehumanising force: reducing real, living students to faceless numbers. However, this is to miss the point of data in education. It is precisely by putting the people to one side – for a moment – that we discover […]

Reconsidering the way we present the Holocaust

October 7, 2022October 7, 2022Oxford History Team

At Oxford University Press, we are always thinking of ways to improve the way we deliver different topics. We want to offer the best resources that we can – and we feel it’s important to revisit each topic to ensure we’ve taken current thinking, the latest interpretations and up-to-date research into account. When OUP decided […]

Inclusive Classrooms: What does inclusion really mean?

October 4, 2022September 2, 2022Oxford Secondary
Taking positive steps together

Inclusion is one of those words we hear often in education but what does it really mean and what does it look like? Emmanuel Awoyelu shares some ways you can create an inclusive environment for your students

10 tips for starting a STEM club in your school

September 28, 2022April 4, 2024Oxford Science Team
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Read 10 amazing tips from OUP’s expert team about starting a successful STEM club in your Secondary school!

Supporting Year 12 students as they start their A level Physics course

September 15, 2022April 4, 2024Oxford Science Team
A Level Physics

Author Catherine Jones suggests strategies to support the new cohort of students as they start their Physics A level this year.

Musings from the 2022 Festival of Education

July 22, 2022July 22, 2022Jane.Digby

Well, it certainly felt like a festival with a flow of summer dresses as we sweltered in temperatures of nearly 30 degrees!

Inclusive Classrooms: Strategies to support LGBTQ+ visibility and inclusion

June 20, 2022June 20, 2022Oxford Secondary
Taking positive steps together

I am the head of MFL and a member of the research team in a large semi-rural comprehensive on the south coast. We have a very inclusive and affirming city environment, and a diverse and colourful student and staff population. Since 2018 we have run a weekly LGBTQ+ club (even somehow maintaining a presence during the periods […]

An insight into writing a novel by the author of Boy, Everywhere A. M. Dassu

June 15, 2022June 15, 2022Hollie Hargood
Boy Everywhere Oxford Rollercoasters edition

Boy, Everywhere is a story of survival, of family, of bravery. It looks at the refugee crisis from a new perspective, and through Sami’s eyes shows that we are all one cruel twist of fate away from becoming refugees ourselves: it can happen to anyone. Historical context By 2015, the war in Syria had been […]

Practicals: My top 5 science experiments

June 10, 2022April 4, 2024Oxford Science Team
Trialling Oxford Smart Activate

By Stacey Wheeler, Senior Science Technician When students come to us from year 6 they are amazed to be in a real lab; the benches, the high stools, sinks, gas taps, and all the sockets around! For some the novelty wears off quicker than others. Perhaps they realise that the stools aren’t actually that comfortable. […]

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