30 mins
Creating a New School
This programme charts the creation of the Hadley Learning Community, a new PFI scheme state-of-the-art extended school.
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5 mins
Great Literacy Expectations
This programme takes a look at the work that has been done at Charles Dickens Primary School in London to take it out of special measures to become one of the best in the area.
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5 mins
Wheel of Fortune
Cardwell Primary School is in Woolwich Dockyard, with one of the highest levels of social deprivation and poverty in the country.
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15 mins
League Tables
Need to Know is the essential guide to hot education topics. In this programme, we discuss league tables and Contextual Value Added scores.
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15 mins
Equalities Legislation
Education broadcaster Mike Baker discusses the latest legislation on equality with presenter Sheena McDonald, asking how equality will be promoted in schools and what difference it will make to students and teachers.
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15 mins
New Restraint Powers
Mike Baker and Sheena McDonald discuss teachers' powers of restraint under the Education and Inspections Act 2006.
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15 mins
Performance Management
Mike Baker and Sheena McDonald discuss the changes to performance management legislation, highlighting how new arrangements will affect teachers in schools.
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15 mins
Safe School Trips
Sheena McDonald and Mike Baker discuss the latest efforts to encourage more teachers to take students on school trips, highlighting the best advice to ensure that school trips go smoothly.
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15 mins
Children's Trusts
A user-friendly guide to the complexities of Children's Trusts; this programme explains clearly how they have been charged with delivering children's services at a local level, and shows how one school is using them.
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