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Lockdown Snakes and Ladders: Encouraging positive outcomes in home learning

February 15, 2021February 25, 2021Oxford Science Team
Lockdown learning: snakes and ladders

A game of snakes and ladders – that is how my 9-year-old son describes lockdown. This piqued my interest, and I was drawn away from my online virtual marking and gazed at him across the kitchen table to ask him to explain his metaphor.  Zac is in Year 5 in an expanding multiphase academy, where […]

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8 Top Tips for Remote Learning

January 12, 2021January 12, 2021Oxford Primary
Primary remote teaching and learning

Over the past weeks and months, we’ve all had to adapt to uncertainty, and being flexible has become a necessity for schools, pupils and parents alike – and you’re all doing an amazing job! Now that you’ve had the chance to try out new approaches inside and outside of the classroom, it’s a good point […]

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Four Stages of Reimagining the Classroom

July 1, 2020July 1, 2020Oxford English Team
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Rebecca Geoghegan discusses how lessons and learning might evolve through an increased virtual experience with her four stages of reimagining the classroom. When the closures were announced on the 18th March, most schools would say that they had an inkling it was coming. International news had led to much speculation and ‘loose’ plans being created […]

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The COVID-19 Recovery Curriculum – Dr Andrew Chandler-Grevatt

June 1, 2020June 1, 2020Oxford Science Team
Student studying from home

Teachers have had to respond to the challenge of the school closures due to COVID-19. Just as we are getting used to a ‘new normal,’ we are having to adapt to the uncertainty and difficulty of the recovery period. Despite our best efforts to deliver our existing curricula, its impact will be greatly variable for […]

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5 Tips for Teaching from Home while maintaining sanity, structure and a work-life balance

April 28, 2020April 28, 2020Oxford Languages Team
teaching from home

Rebecca Nobes shares five strategies she’s using to adjust to teaching from home during lockdown. I’d like to start this blog with a quick disclaimer, I am no expert. I am a teacher like any other just trying to make these strange times work as best they can. This blog is an opportunity for me […]

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