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July Reading List: Sporty Stories

July 3, 2020July 3, 2020Oxford Primary

Here’s our selection of sporty reading recommendations to get children moving. Find stories and free eBooks to keep them active over the summer months, from adrenalin-fuelled extreme sports to football-playing zombies.

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Language teaching in September – what might it look like?

June 25, 2020July 14, 2020Oxford Languages Team 2 Comments
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Aprender a dudar es aprender a pensar (‘Learning to doubt is learning to think’). -Octavio Paz In March this year, school life as we know it shuddered to a halt, and as we write, when and under what guise it will fully return remains unclear. Over the past few months, teachers and students will have […]

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Supporting key year groups as they return to school

June 25, 2020May 6, 2022Oxford Languages Team

How do we support key year groups, now and on our return to school? and what do we do for those who can’t return at the same time? These are the questions we all wish we knew the answers to, aren’t they? The truth is I don’t think that anyone has the magic fix, that […]

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Supporting students to ‘get back to normal’, the educational challenges faced

June 22, 2020June 30, 2020Oxford Education
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It is safe to say that there will be a pressing urge to ‘get back to normal’ when schools resume. However, it will be important to make space for recovery work: the conversations, routines, and relationships that help a school flourish. It is also important to remember that there is likely to be a wider […]

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Getting back to the History classroom

June 19, 2020June 22, 2020Oxford History Team
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On Friday 20th March, it was announced that all UK schools would close to staff and most pupils in a bid to tackle the spread of Covid-19. Immediately teachers started to do what teachers do best – they began the tricky job of ensuring that both the students who would be at home for the […]

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Keeping it simple but meaningful during school closures

June 19, 2020June 19, 2020Oxford Science Team
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Head of Biology Amelia Kyriakides discusses the ways in which her department has adapted to home learning and how the strategies they’ve developed will continue to benefit her GCSE cohorts on their return to school. For many of us, adapting for home learning meant rapidly rethinking lesson planning. Quick decisions needed to be made based […]

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Looking forward to the return to school

June 15, 2020June 15, 2020Oxford Languages Team 1 Comment
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I think if there’s something that the partial school closures have taught me it’s about the aspects of the job that I take for granted. It’s easy to forget the enjoyment of actually being in the classroom, especially on really busy days with back to back lessons. There’s even something to be said about being […]

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What are we missing about the classroom?

June 9, 2020June 8, 2020Oxford English Team
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And what are we looking forward to? Secondary English teacher, Gwen Nelson reflects on the last few months especially the things she has started to miss. And what exactly is she looking forward to about getting back into the classroom again full time? Firstly, let’s be abundantly clear. Suddenly being thrust into remote teaching has […]

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June Reading List: Wellbeing Wonders

June 1, 2020October 28, 2020Oxford Primary
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A list bursting with books that will do wonders for wellbeing. From colourful stories to reassure children that it’s ok to worry, and valuable lessons about being kind, to inspiration for getting active and staying healthy, let’s take some time out to look after ourselves, and each other.

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

June 1, 2020June 1, 2020Oxford Science Team
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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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