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Bridging the Word Gap at transition: The Oxford Language Report 2020

October 29, 2020October 30, 2020Oxford Education

Lionel Bolton, Head of English, Languages and Humanities, Oxford University Press Read the report What have we discovered? Our new report, Bridging the Word Gap at Transition, builds on our previous report from 3 years ago, Why Closing the Word Gap Matters. In that first report we highlighted that nearly half of the children in Year 1 and […]

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Smoothing the transition to secondary school in a pandemic year

June 16, 2020June 16, 2020Oxford Science Team
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Life is full of change, now more than ever with the corona crisis unfolding.  But life will go on, and we are now venturing into opening our schools and creating a new normal. At this time of year, I would usually be working closely with our primary colleagues to help with transition projects to reduce the […]

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Getting (and keeping) children excited about Key Stage Three science

December 17, 2019March 20, 2020Oxford Science Team 1 Comment

In my opinion Key Stage Three is the most important time in secondary school and the time when we can have the biggest influence on students. It’s a time where we can have a significant impact both academically and socially. I even put this to Twitter and Twitter agreed: 50% of people shared this view! […]

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