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																	Time to innovate as children return
																		
																			
																																				
																			
																																				
																   July 24 2020
 
																		The latest Government guidance for children returning to nursery and pre-school contains reassuring steps in the right direction and provides scope to think about new ways to operate, says Sian Marsh of Best Practice Network and Gill Mason of Kids Planet Day Nurseries.
																		
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																	Education post-Covid: Our principles of recovery
																		
																			
																																				
																   July 15 2020
 
																		At the Unity Schools Partnership, the pandemic hiatus has provided an opportunity to re-evaluate and focus on what really matters in education. Yvonne Gandy looks at the trust’s principles of recovery.
																		
																	 
																	WOW: Leading a primary school through lockdown
																		
																			
																																				
																																				
																   June 18 2020
 
																		Leading a primary school through the lockdown has had its fair share of challenges for executive principal Sophie Murfin. She speaks to Yvonne Gandy about how this period has triggered changes that will continue when normal service eventually resumes.
																		
																	 
																	The lockdown legacy: What will change?
																		
																			
																																				
																																				
																   May 13 2020
 
																		Headteacher Rachel Tomlinson believes that the coronavirus shutdown will have a lasting, positive, legacy for the way her school is run. Yvonne Gandy explains.
																		
																	 
																	Leadership during Covid-19: Filtering out the noise
																		
																			
																																				
																																				
																   May 11 2020
 
																		Cutting out the background noise and acting only on the facts has been headteacher Richard Middlebrook’s mantra since the coronavirus lockdown started. Yvonne Gandy explains.
																		
																	 
																	Leadership learning and a baptism of fire
																		
																			
																																				
																																				
																   May 04 2020
 
																		From television crews to Ofsted judgements, Del Planter quickly put his professional learning into action when he became headteacher for the first time during a tumultuous time. Yvonne Gandy finds out more.
																		
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																	Best practice: Where progress begins
																		
																			
																																				
																																				
																   May 01 2020
 
																		Find out how practitioners who have undertaken the Early Years Initial Teacher Training programme have the skills and knowledge to maximise all children's progress in language and communication.
																		
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																	Cultivating the lead practitioner role
																		
																			
																																				
																																				
																   May 01 2020
 
																		Headteacher and MAT CEO Stephen Dean created a maths improvement strategy as part of his CPD studies – an approach that created immediate, notable results. Yvonne Gandy learns more.
																		
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																	Making confident steps towards SBP apprenticeship assessment
																		
																			
																																				
																																				
																   March 19 2020
 
																		School business professional (SBP) apprenticeships are a cost-effective and rigorous way of upskilling your team, but choosing an endpoint assessment organisation (EPAO) can be tricky. School business leadership expert, Val Andrew, guides you through.
																		
																	 
																	'Coronavirus has closed our school for a month'
																		
																			
																																				
																																				
																   March 16 2020
 
																		With his pupils off school in Hong Kong due to the coronavirus threat, NPQH Candidate Matt Seddon has had to try to keep them learning
																		
																	
In the Media | Early Years