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Key Stage 3

4 great reasons to try Read Write Inc. Fresh Start

June 7, 2022June 7, 2022Oxford Primary
Read Write Inc. Fresh Start

Fresh Start is a catch-up and intervention programme for 9- to 13-year-olds who are struggling to learn how to read.
Here are four reasons to try Fresh Start in your primary or secondary school.

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5 Reasons to Try MyMaths

January 6, 2022January 6, 2022Oxford Maths
Reasons to Try MyMaths

Here’s why you should take another look at this comprehensive collection of maths resources for use both in the classroom and at home.

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Closing the vocabulary gap from a Key Stage 3 perspective

September 22, 2021September 23, 2021Oxford Education

The vocabulary gap is perhaps more difficult to spot at Key Stage 3 than it is in the earlier years. By this stage, students will have 7 years of schooling under their belt, yet, when questioned directly, will struggle to define words they should be very familiar with by now. Exacerbated by Covid interruptions, teachers are faced […]

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10 things to say about ratio?

August 27, 2019January 22, 2020Oxford Maths

I was surprised to hear that in the pre-2013 Key Stage 3 national curriculum there was only one statement about ratio, whereas in the current version there are ten statements. I was surprised because I did not remember, from my work on the development of the current curriculum, that there were so many, so I […]

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Constructive approaches to languages assessment for KS3 and KS4

January 15, 2018February 9, 2021Oxford Languages Team 1 Comment

Our January blog post welcomes back Yvonne Kennedy, MFL consultant and Allez author… The phenomenon of the ‘backwash effect’ whereby the format and foci of GCSE assessment has a direct influence (positive or negative depending on your point of view) on teaching practice at Key Stage 3 will be familiar to many language teachers. Some, […]

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Starting secondary school: Learning and homework

May 30, 2017May 31, 2017Oxford Education

With the summer term well underway, you might be making plans to welcome September’s new Year 7 cohort to school on induction day. With this in mind, we asked former Leader of English (and parent) Jill Carter what advice she’d give to parents whose children are about to start secondary school for the first time. […]

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Starting secondary school: Pastoral care

May 30, 2017July 26, 2019Oxford Education

With the summer term well underway, you might be making plans to welcome September’s new Year 7 cohort to school on induction day. With this in mind, we asked former Leader of English (and parent) Jill Carter what advice she’d give to parents whose children are about to start secondary school for the first time. […]

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Exploring the interconnectivity of skills at Key Stage 3

May 24, 2017November 13, 2017Oxford Languages Team

Last summer, I was asked to take part in a project on assessment at Key Stage 3 to consider what the Programme of Study for languages might mean for the design of new assessments in the classroom.  Reviewing this document, I was reminded of the emphasis on the interconnectivity of the four skills of speaking, […]

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Developing a 5-year assessment model

January 14, 2016May 3, 2018Oxford Science Team

Since being involved in the Activate project, I’ve no longer thought of KS3 and GCSE as separate entities. This seems to be a trend in many of the schools I speak to, and many now consider the two Key Stages together and talk of a ‘5-year scheme of work’. But what’s the value in this? And what […]

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Welcome back 2014/5

August 28, 2014June 29, 2015Liz Black

I hope that you had a really good break over the summer. The holidays are a welcome break from routine and pressure, aren’t they? For a number of reasons we decided not to go abroad this year, one being that I had just returned from two weeks in Germany with the UK German Connection . I was a […]

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