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School Term and Holiday Dates 2024 – 2025 Please see below for the term and holiday dates for Cheshire/Liverpool/Wirral/Sefton/Halton/St Helens/Warrington/Flintshire/Denbighshire. Autumn 2024:        Spring 2025: Summer 2025:

Ofqual will look at ‘adaptive testing’ – computer-based tests which vary the difficulty of questions based on how well the candidate is performing – as well as the ‘potential risks and benefits of remote invigilation’ of exams. Students taking GCSEs and other tests could be told to use computers to give their answers instead of pen and

Students taking GCSE examinations in summer 2022 are being given advance information by exam boards, due to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.  Across the UK exams are taking place this year for the first time since 2019. Additional details of exam content for many subjects are being released, to help pupils revise, but there will

By Tim Lambert Roman Chester Chester began when the Romans built a fort next to the River Dee about 75 AD. The Roman fort was called Deva. At first, the fort was made of wood. It had a ditch outside and an earth embankment with a wooden palisade on top. At the beginning of the

  1. Connectedness, collaboration and co-creation The concept of a teacher standing in front of a room full of students who listen and respond to direction is increasingly a thing of the past. While not an entirely new approach, student learning spaces will supercede the typical classroom that we know today. This will see students

What it will take to overcome some deeply embedded and counterproductive assumptions. Steven MintzMarch 24, 2021   Self-help and self-improvement books aren’t simply for those seeking financial success or a more fulfilling love life. The genre now extends to those who want to improve their teaching. The internet teems with articles that describe three steps, five

Educational Technology Trends In 2020-2021 Big Data, Machine Learning, and the Internet of Things (IoT) were the biggest educational technology trends of 2019. However, distance learning has become the one trend that rules them all. The COVID-19 pandemic has drastically changed the way we teach and learn. Students now have to get used to distance

Primary teachers work with children between the ages of four and eleven. They are responsible for one class and teach across all areas of the primary national curriculum. Primary teachers focus on the three core subjects of English, Maths and Science but also need to be comfortable teaching subjects such as Art, History, Music and