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Studying for exams is inevitably a stressful time. While a degree of nerves is to be expected – and can indeed prove beneficial –…

Q For schools that have been experiencing gradual improvements in their results, a sudden drop in grades can come as a shock. It’s not…

Ten years on, and I still enjoy teaching. Am I crazy? I know, I know… it’s difficult to believe that after ten years in the teaching…

Making the right choices can be the key to surviving those turbulent teenage years; but when it comes to food, the problem is there is often…

In our school there are a number of young people who haven’t fitted into school life for a number of reasons; perhaps the system has…

Imagine this if you will… It’s 7.30am on the Monday morning after half term and you have just arrived at your desk to begin your day as…

Student performance is not only affected by their own physical or psychological factors, but the learning environment as well. The space…

A number of headlines reporting that Finland would be removing subjects from the curriculum as the country reformed its education system…

In 2014, financial literacy became part of the National Curriculum in England for the first time, with the intention of enabling young…

Arecent study by Pearson found many schools fear children have increasingly short attention spans, preferring to spend time online rather…

There are currently 8.56 million students in UK schools alone (Department for Education (DfE), 2016) – and there’s no denying the…

The benefits of introducing cashless payment systems in schools have been widely touted. We know, for example, that cashless payment…

As a school our ethos is ‘Everyone Matters Everyone Helps and Everyone Succeeds’, and to achieve this at Rainford High Technology…