Durrington Research School
@durringresearch.bsky.social
Research School based on the south coast in Worthing. Supporting and Exemplifying evidence-informed practice
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We're excited to launch our presence on Blue Sky and connect with a vibrant community of researchers, schools, and other experts!
Thank you for being part of our journey. We’re excited to connect, share, and grow!
#Research #Education
Get to know us: researchschool.org.uk/durrington
Thank you for being part of our journey. We’re excited to connect, share, and grow!
#Research #Education
Get to know us: researchschool.org.uk/durrington
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To take you into half-term, here is your #EduWeeklyRoundUp with #BOTW from @philstock.bsky.social plus tons more great stuff: classteaching.wordpress.com/2025/05/23/w...
Weekly Round-Up: 23 May 2025
Blog of the Week Phil Stock – Universal provision: The Teacher is the Intervention More from Director of Greenshaw Research School Phil Stock on his school’s Graduated Response. Evidenc…
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May 23, 2025 at 8:53 AM
To take you into half-term, here is your #EduWeeklyRoundUp with #BOTW from @philstock.bsky.social plus tons more great stuff: classteaching.wordpress.com/2025/05/23/w...
Incase you missed it:
Part two looking at the updated guidance for deploying TA's from the perspective of a SENCo and what it means for schools
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Part 1:https://researchschool.org.uk/durrington/news/deploying-tas-updated-guidance-report-part-1
Part two looking at the updated guidance for deploying TA's from the perspective of a SENCo and what it means for schools
researchschool.org.uk/durrington/n...
Part 1:https://researchschool.org.uk/durrington/news/deploying-tas-updated-guidance-report-part-1
Deploying TAs- Updated Guidance from the perspective of a SENCo- Part 2
Part two: Looking at what the new guidance means for schools
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May 12, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Incase you missed it:
Part two looking at the updated guidance for deploying TA's from the perspective of a SENCo and what it means for schools
researchschool.org.uk/durrington/n...
Part 1:https://researchschool.org.uk/durrington/news/deploying-tas-updated-guidance-report-part-1
Part two looking at the updated guidance for deploying TA's from the perspective of a SENCo and what it means for schools
researchschool.org.uk/durrington/n...
Part 1:https://researchschool.org.uk/durrington/news/deploying-tas-updated-guidance-report-part-1
From the Archives- But just as relevant!
"A child's background should not determine their future. Yet today, it too often does."
— Education Endowment Foundation (EEF)
"A child's background should not determine their future. Yet today, it too often does."
— Education Endowment Foundation (EEF)
What have we learnt about tackling educational disadvantage?
Some reflections from training programmes we have led this year.
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May 7, 2025 at 12:03 PM
From the Archives- But just as relevant!
"A child's background should not determine their future. Yet today, it too often does."
— Education Endowment Foundation (EEF)
"A child's background should not determine their future. Yet today, it too often does."
— Education Endowment Foundation (EEF)
Incase you missed it: Looking at how strategies that compliment oracy can help tackle issues within diversity and disadvantage
Exploring the intersection of oracy, diversity and disadvantage
Research School Associate Fahim Rahman uses his own experience to reflect on the impact of pupil premium strategies
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May 5, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Incase you missed it: Looking at how strategies that compliment oracy can help tackle issues within diversity and disadvantage
From the Achives- Still Relevant!
Ever the sharpest arrow in our teaching quiver- a reflection on the impact of the importance of questioning
Ever the sharpest arrow in our teaching quiver- a reflection on the impact of the importance of questioning
Getting to the heart of questioning
What do we need to focus on if we are going to ask better questions in our classrooms?
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April 30, 2025 at 12:02 PM
From the Achives- Still Relevant!
Ever the sharpest arrow in our teaching quiver- a reflection on the impact of the importance of questioning
Ever the sharpest arrow in our teaching quiver- a reflection on the impact of the importance of questioning
Incase you Missed it!
The first of a two part series looking into recommendations 1 and 2 of the updated EEF report on TA deployment.
The first of a two part series looking into recommendations 1 and 2 of the updated EEF report on TA deployment.
Deploying TAs – updated guidance report – part 1
This blog is the first of a two part series looking into recommendations 1 and 2 of the updated EEF report on TA deployment.
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April 28, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Incase you Missed it!
The first of a two part series looking into recommendations 1 and 2 of the updated EEF report on TA deployment.
The first of a two part series looking into recommendations 1 and 2 of the updated EEF report on TA deployment.
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‘Supporting shy pupils to talk in class’
“There were positive effects for increasing average warm calling and wait time in class. This should include a careful deployment of ‘cold calling’.”
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“There were positive effects for increasing average warm calling and wait time in class. This should include a careful deployment of ‘cold calling’.”
alexquigley.co.uk/supporting-s...
Supporting shy pupils to talk in class
Shy pupils can easily, often unnoticed, slide to the sides of lessons. Supporting such pupils, who are nervous to talk with their peers or in front of the class, can be a tricky business but also vita...
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April 6, 2025 at 1:27 PM
‘Supporting shy pupils to talk in class’
“There were positive effects for increasing average warm calling and wait time in class. This should include a careful deployment of ‘cold calling’.”
alexquigley.co.uk/supporting-s...
“There were positive effects for increasing average warm calling and wait time in class. This should include a careful deployment of ‘cold calling’.”
alexquigley.co.uk/supporting-s...
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Your Easter break #EduWeeklyRoundUp is here. A new one from us, #BOTW from Matthew Evans plus loads more great stuff: classteaching.wordpress.com/2025/04/04/w...
Weekly Round-Up: 4 April 2025
Blog of the Week Matthew Evans – Adaptive teaching: in search of conceptual clarity Brilliant thinking and writing from Matthew here around adaptive teaching and what it really means for teac…
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April 4, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Your Easter break #EduWeeklyRoundUp is here. A new one from us, #BOTW from Matthew Evans plus loads more great stuff: classteaching.wordpress.com/2025/04/04/w...
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Very proud to be part of this team of brilliant @theeef.bsky.social Research School leaders. We hosted our first ever joint London and the South East conference today. The focus was on literacy and disadvantage and the quality of the sessions was off the scale.
April 2, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Very proud to be part of this team of brilliant @theeef.bsky.social Research School leaders. We hosted our first ever joint London and the South East conference today. The focus was on literacy and disadvantage and the quality of the sessions was off the scale.
Digging through the archives to find blogs that are always relevant!
Reading fluency: not just a primary concern. Critical for secondary success too. How are we ensuring students can navigate complex texts?
#literacy #education #secondaryeducation
Reading fluency: not just a primary concern. Critical for secondary success too. How are we ensuring students can navigate complex texts?
#literacy #education #secondaryeducation
Teaching Reading Fluency at Secondary School
Fluency instruction isn’t just beneficial for younger students: It can go a long way in supporting reading at KS3 and KS4, too.
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March 31, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Digging through the archives to find blogs that are always relevant!
Reading fluency: not just a primary concern. Critical for secondary success too. How are we ensuring students can navigate complex texts?
#literacy #education #secondaryeducation
Reading fluency: not just a primary concern. Critical for secondary success too. How are we ensuring students can navigate complex texts?
#literacy #education #secondaryeducation
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Here's your #EduWeeklyRoundUp with some more new blogs from us, #BOTW from @davidwindle.bsky.social plus loads more great stuff:
classteaching.wordpress.com/2025/03/28/w...
classteaching.wordpress.com/2025/03/28/w...
Weekly Round-Up: 28 March 2025
Blog of the Week David Windle – Entropy, attendance and implementation An interesting perspective on the EEF’s implementation guidance, here is one quote to get you started: “Unle…
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March 28, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Here's your #EduWeeklyRoundUp with some more new blogs from us, #BOTW from @davidwindle.bsky.social plus loads more great stuff:
classteaching.wordpress.com/2025/03/28/w...
classteaching.wordpress.com/2025/03/28/w...
Something to try for the week ahead, exploring the role of AI and its evolving intrusion on our world of education
#education #AI #Teaching
#education #AI #Teaching
Artificial Intelligence in Education
Computer science teacher David Scott explains and explores AI in education.
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March 28, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Something to try for the week ahead, exploring the role of AI and its evolving intrusion on our world of education
#education #AI #Teaching
#education #AI #Teaching
A Reminder of the obligation we all have as educators to ensure education is accessible for all students.
A blog from 2022, but still relavent to the challenges of today for our disadvantaed students.
#education #teaching #EduationalDisadvantaged
A blog from 2022, but still relavent to the challenges of today for our disadvantaed students.
#education #teaching #EduationalDisadvantaged
Levelling the Playing Field
Challenging our own presumptions is the key to tackling educational disadvantage
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March 26, 2025 at 9:39 AM
A Reminder of the obligation we all have as educators to ensure education is accessible for all students.
A blog from 2022, but still relavent to the challenges of today for our disadvantaed students.
#education #teaching #EduationalDisadvantaged
A blog from 2022, but still relavent to the challenges of today for our disadvantaed students.
#education #teaching #EduationalDisadvantaged
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After a week off, your #EduWeeklyRoundUp is back with a bang. #BOTW to @blakeharvard.bsky.social plus loads more (particularly for those with an interest in maths): classteaching.wordpress.com/2025/03/21/w...
Weekly Round-Up: 21 March 2025
Blog of the Week Blake Harvard – Easy Application of Interleaving in the Classroom Blake neatly summarises a research paper on interleaving and why (it might) be worth us adding it to our reg…
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March 21, 2025 at 12:43 PM
After a week off, your #EduWeeklyRoundUp is back with a bang. #BOTW to @blakeharvard.bsky.social plus loads more (particularly for those with an interest in maths): classteaching.wordpress.com/2025/03/21/w...
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Today, we’ve added two new approaches to our Early Years Evidence Store:
✍️Interactive writing, and,
🧼Self care.
In this blog, @juliangrenier.bsky.social, explores how educators can support the development of interactive writing in their setting.
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1/3
✍️Interactive writing, and,
🧼Self care.
In this blog, @juliangrenier.bsky.social, explores how educators can support the development of interactive writing in their setting.
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1/3
March 25, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Today, we’ve added two new approaches to our Early Years Evidence Store:
✍️Interactive writing, and,
🧼Self care.
In this blog, @juliangrenier.bsky.social, explores how educators can support the development of interactive writing in their setting.
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1/3
✍️Interactive writing, and,
🧼Self care.
In this blog, @juliangrenier.bsky.social, explores how educators can support the development of interactive writing in their setting.
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1/3
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😍Look at the incredible list of workshops at UnlockED: Literacy – the Key to Social Equity! 🗝️
🎫Find out more and get your tickets here! ⬇️
www.unlock-ed.org
📍UCL East
📆2nd April 2025
📣 @benniekara.bsky.social & Jeffrey Boakye
@theeef.bsky.social
🎫Find out more and get your tickets here! ⬇️
www.unlock-ed.org
📍UCL East
📆2nd April 2025
📣 @benniekara.bsky.social & Jeffrey Boakye
@theeef.bsky.social
March 4, 2025 at 9:54 AM
😍Look at the incredible list of workshops at UnlockED: Literacy – the Key to Social Equity! 🗝️
🎫Find out more and get your tickets here! ⬇️
www.unlock-ed.org
📍UCL East
📆2nd April 2025
📣 @benniekara.bsky.social & Jeffrey Boakye
@theeef.bsky.social
🎫Find out more and get your tickets here! ⬇️
www.unlock-ed.org
📍UCL East
📆2nd April 2025
📣 @benniekara.bsky.social & Jeffrey Boakye
@theeef.bsky.social
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Your #EduWeeklyRoundUp with 2 new from us, #BOTW from @innerdrive.bsky.social plus loads more:
classteaching.wordpress.com/2025/03/07/w...
classteaching.wordpress.com/2025/03/07/w...
Weekly Round-Up: 7 March 2025
Blog of the Week Inner Drive – Boosting participation: Wait times and question types Inner Drive summarise the latest findings from new questioning research and its implications for type of q…
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March 7, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Your #EduWeeklyRoundUp with 2 new from us, #BOTW from @innerdrive.bsky.social plus loads more:
classteaching.wordpress.com/2025/03/07/w...
classteaching.wordpress.com/2025/03/07/w...
Diving through the archives finding a series of videos From the Durrington Maths Team for our "Self-Regulation at a Distance" series. These videos show students how to work with Hegarty Maths to help them develop as self-regulated learners
Self-Regulation at a Distance – Modelling Metacognition in Maths
Continuing our ‘Self-Regulation at a Distance’ series, the maths team have produced a series of short videos for students.
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March 6, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Diving through the archives finding a series of videos From the Durrington Maths Team for our "Self-Regulation at a Distance" series. These videos show students how to work with Hegarty Maths to help them develop as self-regulated learners
"The [disadvantage] gap is stubborn because its causes are entrenched and complex and most lie beyond the control of schools and educators."
Exploring tackling the Education disadvantaged gap through 7 steps.
Exploring tackling the Education disadvantaged gap through 7 steps.
Tackling Educational Disadvantage
This post explores a seven step approach to tackling educational disadvantage
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March 4, 2025 at 9:39 AM
"The [disadvantage] gap is stubborn because its causes are entrenched and complex and most lie beyond the control of schools and educators."
Exploring tackling the Education disadvantaged gap through 7 steps.
Exploring tackling the Education disadvantaged gap through 7 steps.
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Make sure you have booked your ticket for this fantastic conference led by @theeef.bsky.social Research Schools.Choose from a huge range of workshops to improve your practice & raise achievement.Tickets selling fast!
@greenshawrs.bsky.social @durringresearch.bsky.social
@elresearchsch.bsky.social
@greenshawrs.bsky.social @durringresearch.bsky.social
@elresearchsch.bsky.social
Tickets available for UnlockEd: Literacy The Key to Social Equity Conference@ UCL East on 2nd April 2025
-Keynote speakers - Bennie Kara & Jeffrey Boakye
-Huge range of EEF Research School led workshops on improving literacy to break social barriers.
Get your tickets unlock-ed.org
-Keynote speakers - Bennie Kara & Jeffrey Boakye
-Huge range of EEF Research School led workshops on improving literacy to break social barriers.
Get your tickets unlock-ed.org
March 3, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Make sure you have booked your ticket for this fantastic conference led by @theeef.bsky.social Research Schools.Choose from a huge range of workshops to improve your practice & raise achievement.Tickets selling fast!
@greenshawrs.bsky.social @durringresearch.bsky.social
@elresearchsch.bsky.social
@greenshawrs.bsky.social @durringresearch.bsky.social
@elresearchsch.bsky.social
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💠“Manipulatives can be used in many ways to develop children’s mathematical understanding.”
@gracecoker27.bsky.social, our maths specialist, shares five ways to use manipulates.
Read more: eef.li/kbNaF8
@gracecoker27.bsky.social, our maths specialist, shares five ways to use manipulates.
Read more: eef.li/kbNaF8
Five ways manipulatives can be used to develop mathematical…
Multi-purpose manipulatives!
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February 5, 2025 at 10:43 AM
💠“Manipulatives can be used in many ways to develop children’s mathematical understanding.”
@gracecoker27.bsky.social, our maths specialist, shares five ways to use manipulates.
Read more: eef.li/kbNaF8
@gracecoker27.bsky.social, our maths specialist, shares five ways to use manipulates.
Read more: eef.li/kbNaF8
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Really strong #EduWeeklyRoundUp today with several that could have been #BOTW, but in the end it goes to @clairestoneman.bsky.social. Loads of great stuff in there:
classteaching.wordpress.com/2025/02/07/w...
classteaching.wordpress.com/2025/02/07/w...
Weekly Round-Up: 7 February 2024
Blog of the Week Claire Stoneman – Don’t make the thing, the Thing I think this blog chimes really well with the engage and unite cross-cutting behaviours from the new implementation guidance…
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February 7, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Really strong #EduWeeklyRoundUp today with several that could have been #BOTW, but in the end it goes to @clairestoneman.bsky.social. Loads of great stuff in there:
classteaching.wordpress.com/2025/02/07/w...
classteaching.wordpress.com/2025/02/07/w...
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How will the words we use shape student expectations and achievement this week?
"The Language of High Expectations," explores how language can lead to big changes in student confidence. From the way we frame questions to the feedback we give, every word matters.
https://researchschool.org.uk/du…
"The Language of High Expectations," explores how language can lead to big changes in student confidence. From the way we frame questions to the feedback we give, every word matters.
https://researchschool.org.uk/du…
The Language of High Expectations
Chris Runeckles discusses the importance of language in making high expectations a reality
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February 3, 2025 at 9:39 AM
How will the words we use shape student expectations and achievement this week?
"The Language of High Expectations," explores how language can lead to big changes in student confidence. From the way we frame questions to the feedback we give, every word matters.
https://researchschool.org.uk/du…
"The Language of High Expectations," explores how language can lead to big changes in student confidence. From the way we frame questions to the feedback we give, every word matters.
https://researchschool.org.uk/du…
As a wet January comes to an end, many children and teachers alike may feel unmotivated or discouraged. This is where self-efficacy—the belief in their ability to succeed—becomes essential.
researchschool.org.uk/durrington/n...
#SelfEfficacy #ChildDevelopment #GrowthMindset
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#SelfEfficacy #ChildDevelopment #GrowthMindset
Classroom Management and Self-Efficacy - a complex relationship
An exploration of the role teacher self-efficacy may have in establishing classroom routines.
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January 31, 2025 at 9:44 AM
As a wet January comes to an end, many children and teachers alike may feel unmotivated or discouraged. This is where self-efficacy—the belief in their ability to succeed—becomes essential.
researchschool.org.uk/durrington/n...
#SelfEfficacy #ChildDevelopment #GrowthMindset
researchschool.org.uk/durrington/n...
#SelfEfficacy #ChildDevelopment #GrowthMindset