When Bradford was picked as one of three areas in the country to trial implementation of the new Early Career Framework (ECF), little could the district have known how teaching would be turned on its head by the global coronavirus pandemic.
An opportunity for middle leaders in Bradford primary schools to support our new cohort of JU:MP schools in improving children's physical activity behaviours.
In September 2021, Bradford Teaching School Hub will commence the delivery of the Early Career Framework (ECF) for teachers across the city and partner schools and trusts. To help prepare schools, mentors will be trained and supported in the summer term of 2021.
Bradford Teaching School Hub is seeking expressions of interest from colleagues seeking to undertake one of the six new or reformed NPQs that it will be delivered in the Autumn term 2021.
Bradford Teaching School Hub is seeking to establish a peer support group to assist schools and trusts to develop their own Recruitment and Retention Strategy.
In September 2021, Bradford Teaching School Hub will commence the delivery of the Department for Education's New Headteacher Programme. This is for new headteachers in post for less than two years.
In recent years, there has been a lot of research into what makes the most effective multimedia learning. Most lessons taught in schools now feature some form of multimedia learning, be it a video, PowerPoint or animation.
As young people return to the classroom across Bradford, schools are already reflecting how months of remote learning forced a complete re-evaluation of practice, and how technology might shape the way they build back better.
More Bradford schools are set to benefit from the expertise of the Burley Woodhead English Hub from September 2021 in a further boost to literacy levels among Reception and Year 1 pupils.
A further five schools are set to become partner schools and receive intensive support from the English Hub, taking the number of participating schools in the district to 25 by the start of the new 2021 academic year.
Poor reading skills are a major barrier to learning, especially at secondary school. Poor readers are likely to have been disproportionately affected by home schooling during the pandemic, and the gap between poor and good readers is likely to have widened during successive lockdowns.
Many schools use standardised tests to assess reading comprehension, determine pupils’ reading age or identify struggling readers. This information could be used to target support in the wake of the pandemic and beyond.