Headteacher Update
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A free magazine and website for UK primary school leaders (and teachers). Weekly ebulletins. A monthly podcast. Regular webinars. Conferences. Lots of best practice articles and case studies as well as news & resources. Posts by @pwhenshaw.bsky.social
Dialogic #teaching – 10 strategies for primary #schools. The dialogic approaches at Highlands Primary improve the quality of talk, encouraging pupils to think deeply, reason, discuss, argue & explain. Dr Kulvarn Atwal explains: buff.ly/yllHXU7 #teachers #edusky
Dialogic teaching: 10 strategies for primary schools - Headteacher Update
This article from Headteacher Update's oracy education supplement outlines 10 dialogic teaching strategies
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November 24, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Dialogic #teaching – 10 strategies for primary #schools. The dialogic approaches at Highlands Primary improve the quality of talk, encouraging pupils to think deeply, reason, discuss, argue & explain. Dr Kulvarn Atwal explains: buff.ly/yllHXU7 #teachers #edusky
Our Safeguarding Digest platform for school #safeguarding teams offers best practice insights, #CPD including scenarios & key questions for staff, latest news, a forum for sharing knowledge & much more:
Headteacher Update - Safeguarding Digest information
Keep your school up to date, compliant and prepared
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November 24, 2025 at 6:42 AM
Our Safeguarding Digest platform for school #safeguarding teams offers best practice insights, #CPD including scenarios & key questions for staff, latest news, a forum for sharing knowledge & much more:
Get your free 21-page Headteacher Update guide to #teaching #oracy skills, with lots of practical ideas for primary #schools: Defining oracy – Disciplinary oracy – Vocabulary gaps – Assessment – Transition – Disadvantage – SLCN – School case studies:
A best practice guide to teaching oracy skills in the primary school - Headteacher Update
This free 21-page Headteacher Update supplement offers advice and examples for how to teach primary pupils oracy skills
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November 23, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Don't miss your Headteacher Update Bulletin for #schools: Five principles for raising pupil attainment – Analysing the #Ofsted leadership evaluation area – Auditing EAL provision – Implementing oracy: Four practical ideas – Teacher Wellbeing Index 2025: buff.ly/1WAIBLm #teaching #edusky #education
November 23, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Don't miss your Headteacher Update Bulletin for #schools: Five principles for raising pupil attainment – Analysing the #Ofsted leadership evaluation area – Auditing EAL provision – Implementing oracy: Four practical ideas – Teacher Wellbeing Index 2025: buff.ly/1WAIBLm #teaching #edusky #education
Responsive #teaching in the classroom involves paying attention, listening closely & being ready to act to support pupils, especially those with SEND. Emma Saunders offers some practical insights for #teachers: buff.ly/9aVfxB7 #schools #inclusion
What does teaching responsively look like? - Headteacher Update
Responsive teaching in the classroom involves being ready to act to support pupils, especially those with SEND
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November 21, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Responsive #teaching in the classroom involves paying attention, listening closely & being ready to act to support pupils, especially those with SEND. Emma Saunders offers some practical insights for #teachers: buff.ly/9aVfxB7 #schools #inclusion
Continuing his 6-part SecEd series analysing the 6 core evaluation areas of the new #Ofsted school inspection framework, @mattbromley.bsky.social explores attendance & behaviour, helping #schools to sense-check provision & identify areas for focus:
Analysing Ofsted's core evaluation areas for school inspection: Attendance and behaviour - Headteacher Update
Analysis of how Ofsted will inspect attendance and behaviour during school inspection under the new 2025 framework
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November 21, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Continuing his 6-part SecEd series analysing the 6 core evaluation areas of the new #Ofsted school inspection framework, @mattbromley.bsky.social explores attendance & behaviour, helping #schools to sense-check provision & identify areas for focus:
Headteacher Update's Autumn Edition is out now: 48 pages of in-depth, research-based & expert best practice relevant to primary school leadership & teaching, including our latest seven-page Best Practice Focus which focuses on effective subject leadership: buff.ly/sJ3KjWz
November 21, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Headteacher Update's Autumn Edition is out now: 48 pages of in-depth, research-based & expert best practice relevant to primary school leadership & teaching, including our latest seven-page Best Practice Focus which focuses on effective subject leadership: buff.ly/sJ3KjWz
The law protects parents who physically punish their children, but to a point & the line is fine. Sara Alston – @seainclusion.bsky.social – on how DSLs can talk to these parents: buff.ly/ls1r6yZ (Get access to this article via our Safeguarding Digest: buff.ly/47SIzqG)
Conversations with parents about physical chastisement - Headteacher Update
How can school safeguarding teams respond if parents are hitting their children as a form of physical punishment?
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November 21, 2025 at 12:42 PM
The law protects parents who physically punish their children, but to a point & the line is fine. Sara Alston – @seainclusion.bsky.social – on how DSLs can talk to these parents: buff.ly/ls1r6yZ (Get access to this article via our Safeguarding Digest: buff.ly/47SIzqG)
In a 6-part series, @mattbromley.bsky.social analyses the 6 core evaluation areas of the new #Ofsted school inspection framework, helping you to sense-check your approach & identify areas requiring focus. Next up, leadership & governance:
Analysing Ofsted's core evaluation areas for school inspection: Leadership and governance - Headteacher Update
Analysis of how Ofsted will inspect leadership and governance during school inspection
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November 21, 2025 at 11:42 AM
In a 6-part series, @mattbromley.bsky.social analyses the 6 core evaluation areas of the new #Ofsted school inspection framework, helping you to sense-check your approach & identify areas requiring focus. Next up, leadership & governance:
With 1 in 5 pupils in England’s #schools speaking English as an additional language #EAL, ensuring inclusive practice is vital, especially in light of Ofsted’s new inspection framework. Sarah Moodie outlines 4 steps for reviewing your EAL provision: buff.ly/5m6o92y #edusky #education
Evaluating your primary school’s EAL provision: Four steps - Headteacher Update
Advice from The Bell Foundation to help schools evaluate provision for students using English as an additional language
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November 21, 2025 at 11:01 AM
With 1 in 5 pupils in England’s #schools speaking English as an additional language #EAL, ensuring inclusive practice is vital, especially in light of Ofsted’s new inspection framework. Sarah Moodie outlines 4 steps for reviewing your EAL provision: buff.ly/5m6o92y #edusky #education
How can we develop children’s #oracy skills & what does best practice in primary #schools look like? This 21-page guide dives into all that #teaching oracy entails. Lots of ideas, examples, lesson advice & case studies. Get your free pdf:
A best practice guide to teaching oracy skills in the primary school - Headteacher Update
This free 21-page Headteacher Update supplement offers advice and examples for how to teach primary pupils oracy skills
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November 21, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Almost 9 in 10 senior leaders in #schools feel stressed & many have signs of #burnout & #exhaustion. Three-quarters of #teachers are also stressed. #Education staff have lowest level of #wellbeing ever recorded in annual @edsupportuk.bsky.social #TWIX2025 research:
Teacher Wellbeing Index: Record findings must be ‘wake-up call to government’ - Headteacher Update
Teacher Wellbeing Index reveals three-quarters of school staff are stressed, with many risking burn-out and exhaustion
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November 21, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Almost 9 in 10 senior leaders in #schools feel stressed & many have signs of #burnout & #exhaustion. Three-quarters of #teachers are also stressed. #Education staff have lowest level of #wellbeing ever recorded in annual @edsupportuk.bsky.social #TWIX2025 research:
Growing great subject leaders in the primary school: In this 7-page Best Practice Focus, Robbie Burns dissects 4 aspects of effective subject leadership, core tasks every subject leader should engage in, a distributed curriculum leadership model & much more: buff.ly/9AkCHCr #teaching #schools
Best Practice Focus: Growing great subject leaders in your primary school - Headteacher Update
A seven-page best practice guide detailing the role of great subject leaders across the primary school
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November 21, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Growing great subject leaders in the primary school: In this 7-page Best Practice Focus, Robbie Burns dissects 4 aspects of effective subject leadership, core tasks every subject leader should engage in, a distributed curriculum leadership model & much more: buff.ly/9AkCHCr #teaching #schools
Don't miss your Headteacher Update Bulletin for #schools: Five principles for raising pupil attainment – Analysing the #Ofsted leadership evaluation area – Auditing EAL provision – Implementing oracy: Four practical ideas – Teacher Wellbeing Index 2025: buff.ly/1WAIBLm #teaching #edusky #education
November 21, 2025 at 6:42 AM
Don't miss your Headteacher Update Bulletin for #schools: Five principles for raising pupil attainment – Analysing the #Ofsted leadership evaluation area – Auditing EAL provision – Implementing oracy: Four practical ideas – Teacher Wellbeing Index 2025: buff.ly/1WAIBLm #teaching #edusky #education
Headteacher Update Bulletin for #schools is out now: Five principles for raising pupil attainment – Analysing the #Ofsted leadership evaluation area – Auditing EAL provision – Implementing oracy: Four practical ideas – Teacher Wellbeing Index 2025: buff.ly/1WAIBLm #teaching #education
November 20, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Headteacher Update Bulletin for #schools is out now: Five principles for raising pupil attainment – Analysing the #Ofsted leadership evaluation area – Auditing EAL provision – Implementing oracy: Four practical ideas – Teacher Wellbeing Index 2025: buff.ly/1WAIBLm #teaching #education
The #oracy assemblies at Pinner Wood School place great value on #speaking & #listening skills – and it is the pupils who do the talking. Emily Thomas explains how it all works & how others #schools might adopt the idea: buff.ly/MHY8fqI #teaching #teachers #edusky
Case study: Oracy assemblies in action at Pinner Wood School - Headteacher Update
The use of oracy assemblies at Pinner Wood School help to improve pupils' speaking and discussion skills
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November 20, 2025 at 5:06 PM
The #oracy assemblies at Pinner Wood School place great value on #speaking & #listening skills – and it is the pupils who do the talking. Emily Thomas explains how it all works & how others #schools might adopt the idea: buff.ly/MHY8fqI #teaching #teachers #edusky
To mark the launch of the Implementing Oracy programme, Neil Mercer, @topsypage.bsky.social & @rethinkingjames.bsky.social from Oracy Cambridge discuss how we can engage students in productive classroom discussion – with 4 practical & concrete ideas: buff.ly/xMOf2VP #teaching #teachers #schools
Implementing oracy: Four practical ideas for your classroom - Headteacher Update
The new oracy framework will help teachers to improve discussions in their classrooms – here are some practical ideas
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November 20, 2025 at 4:21 PM
To mark the launch of the Implementing Oracy programme, Neil Mercer, @topsypage.bsky.social & @rethinkingjames.bsky.social from Oracy Cambridge discuss how we can engage students in productive classroom discussion – with 4 practical & concrete ideas: buff.ly/xMOf2VP #teaching #teachers #schools
Headteacher Update Podcast: A new episode dissects the revised #Ofsted inspection framework, setting out actions #schools can take now to prepare. Advice on the 'secure fit' model, the 'expected standard', the focus on #inclusion & context, the 90-minute call, the nominee role & more buff.ly/EpHd4IF
November 20, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Headteacher Update Podcast: A new episode dissects the revised #Ofsted inspection framework, setting out actions #schools can take now to prepare. Advice on the 'secure fit' model, the 'expected standard', the focus on #inclusion & context, the 90-minute call, the nominee role & more buff.ly/EpHd4IF
Sign up for the free @headteacherupdate.bsky.social bulletin: Every Thursday. Latest #primary #education best practice advice, case studies, #resources, #podcasts, #webinars, free downloads, news analysis & blogs. Practical advice to help your #leadership & your #schools buff.ly/49MQVRT #edusky
November 20, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Sign up for the free @headteacherupdate.bsky.social bulletin: Every Thursday. Latest #primary #education best practice advice, case studies, #resources, #podcasts, #webinars, free downloads, news analysis & blogs. Practical advice to help your #leadership & your #schools buff.ly/49MQVRT #edusky
Safeguarding Digest offers bitesize #safeguarding summaries & key questions to keep your school staff up-to-date. This week: Monitoring & filtering: buff.ly/yvM1zlO (Get access to this article via our Safeguarding Digest: buff.ly/47SIzqG)
What is your role in keeping children safe on school devices? - Headteacher Update
Safeguarding CPD materials and questions for school staff relating to filtering and monitoring of devices in schools
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November 20, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Safeguarding Digest offers bitesize #safeguarding summaries & key questions to keep your school staff up-to-date. This week: Monitoring & filtering: buff.ly/yvM1zlO (Get access to this article via our Safeguarding Digest: buff.ly/47SIzqG)
Headteacher Update Bulletin for #schools is out now: Five principles for raising pupil attainment – Analysing the #Ofsted leadership evaluation area – Auditing EAL provision – Implementing oracy: Four practical ideas – Teacher Wellbeing Index 2025: buff.ly/1WAIBLm #teaching #edusky #education
November 20, 2025 at 6:42 AM
Headteacher Update Bulletin for #schools is out now: Five principles for raising pupil attainment – Analysing the #Ofsted leadership evaluation area – Auditing EAL provision – Implementing oracy: Four practical ideas – Teacher Wellbeing Index 2025: buff.ly/1WAIBLm #teaching #edusky #education
Primary Steps on Demand brings #ballet & #dance into the primary school & is delivered by the @royalballetschool.bsky.social – @EmmaLeePotter finds out how the programme has been delivered at St Anne Line Catholic Junior School: buff.ly/ToJ5GJ9 #Arts #Schools #Education
The joy of dance: Primary Steps on Demand - Headteacher Update
Primary Steps on Demand brings ballet and dance into the primary school and is delivered by the Royal Ballet School. Emma Lee-Potter finds out how the programme has been delivered at one school
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November 19, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Primary Steps on Demand brings #ballet & #dance into the primary school & is delivered by the @royalballetschool.bsky.social – @EmmaLeePotter finds out how the programme has been delivered at St Anne Line Catholic Junior School: buff.ly/ToJ5GJ9 #Arts #Schools #Education
Sign up for the free @headteacherupdate.bsky.social bulletin: Every Thursday. Latest #primary #education best practice advice, case studies, #resources, #podcasts, #webinars, free downloads, news analysis & blogs. Practical advice to help your #leadership & your #schools buff.ly/49MQVRT #edusky
November 19, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Sign up for the free @headteacherupdate.bsky.social bulletin: Every Thursday. Latest #primary #education best practice advice, case studies, #resources, #podcasts, #webinars, free downloads, news analysis & blogs. Practical advice to help your #leadership & your #schools buff.ly/49MQVRT #edusky
The #Ofsted framework comes with a new inspection toolkit, operating guide & information documents. Drawing on these, @pkainsworth.bsky.social offers 16 activities for senior leadership teams in #schools to help you prepare:
New Ofsted inspection framework: Sixteen activities for school leaders - Headteacher Update
A list of 16 leadership team activities to help prepare for the requirements of the Ofsted school inspection framework
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November 19, 2025 at 4:21 PM
The #Ofsted framework comes with a new inspection toolkit, operating guide & information documents. Drawing on these, @pkainsworth.bsky.social offers 16 activities for senior leadership teams in #schools to help you prepare:
How can we develop children’s #oracy skills & what does best practice in primary #schools look like? This 21-page guide dives into all that #teaching oracy entails. Lots of ideas, examples, lesson advice & case studies. Get your free pdf:
A best practice guide to teaching oracy skills in the primary school - Headteacher Update
This free 21-page Headteacher Update supplement offers advice and examples for how to teach primary pupils oracy skills
buff.ly
November 19, 2025 at 3:09 PM