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Building work identities: what can schools do?
In her first blog Jenny Williams, Chief Executive at ASDAN, examined the importance of forming a work identity. Here, she...
Whole Education’s Trust Leadership Series
Blog by James Pope, the programme director for Whole Education's Trust Leadership Series. The context for TLS Following years of...
‘The Lost Middle’: Our project with Outward Bound
This year, Whole Education has teamed up with Outward Bound to explore the impact that outdoor adventure learning can have on the...
Can a new university help prepare young people for their futures?
A key theme of Whole Education’s recent annual conference preparing young people for their futures, and of the keynote from...
The mental health epidemic impacting the education workforce – what can be done to restore wellbeing in schools?
Whole Education has a strategic partnership with the Education Placement Group - leaders in education recruitment, retention and the provision...
Calling creative Year 11s! Applications open to the London Screen Academy
The London Screen Academy is a new 16-19 school to set kids up for real-world behind-the-camera jobs in the screen industries, created...
Vocational qualifications webinar series
We're really excited that our Strategic Partners, OCR, have agreed to run a series of webinars helping you bring to...
The Future of Voc-ed: OCR & Cambridge Assessment Vocational Symposium
On Thursday 29th November 2018, OCR and Cambridge Assessment hosted a symposium at the University of Warwick for educational professionals...
Merry Christmas from Whole Education!
What have you enjoyed most about the last term working at Whole Education?
Insights from WE Leadership Programmes
We asked senior leaders who completed our Leading and Managing Curriculum Change programme last year to reflect on what they learned, or...
Designing effective interventions to improve outcomes
How one leader used Whole Education’s curriculum leadership programme to design an effective new intervention ...featuring David Crossley’s top tips...
Ensuring access to a cultural education for all your learners
At the end of March, Whole Education released the report of findings from our pilot investigating how flipped pedagogy can...
Language Futures – Click, Connect, Learn celebrating Volunteers’ Week
Clodagh Cooney, the Language Futures and Click, Connect, Learn project manager and former languages teacher writes about the value of...
‘Independent schools are shamelessly playing the system when it comes to exam grades’
- These words come from an article written for TES magazine by Whole Education's Chair, Sir John Dunford Private schools...
Joy or Relief? Exploring experiences of the first round of GCSE (9-1) English and maths
- by Michelle North, OCR Head of Subject Advisors Teaching the first group through a new qualification is daunting. It can...
Pass Pilot – Whole Education Project Summary
Hello! To introduce myself - I am Zara Peskett, Team Leader for Social Sciences at Shenley Brook End Secondary school...
Partner Post | Evolve Health Mentors
Evolve Health Mentors embedded in primary schools are having a powerful effect on the whole education agenda, an independent research...
Development and Innovation Workshop 2016
Our third annual Development and Innovation Workshop served to emphasise the growing demand from Whole Education schools and partners for...
Seizing the Agenda | From Raising the Floor to Raising the Ceiling
David Crossley, Executive Director, Whole Education Whole Education’s 6th Annual Conference at Kings Place, London on the 12th and 13th...
Going above and beyond | The Martin Bacon Memorial Headteacher of the Year Award
This year, as Andy Sprakes stepped up to receive his award he gave a little speech. “I don’t believe in...
Developing a curriculum that meets the needs of all young people, whilst making the most of the choices we have
An Education worth Having | Whole Education Curriculum Conference March 5th London Developing a curriculum that meets the needs of all...
Student observations!
At our school the Learning Leaders (the student voice group we all attend) do observations of teachers (with their permission...
Our Teachers are fun!
Loads of our lessons are fun, this means we work well without trying to disrupt others otherwise the fun disappears....
Tensile at Shenley Brook End School
During our school day we use TENSILE! Teamwork, Expression, Numeracy, Solving Problems, Independence, Literacy, Enquiry Tensile is used in classes...
Teaching character and resilience: learning from the best to make Britain a global leader
Sir John Dunford OBE, Chair, Whole Education We warmly welcome Education Secretary Nicky Morgan’s latest £3.5 million fund for developing...
Digital Leaders: The new technology gurus in school
What is a digital leader? This term encompasses the growing number of students engaged in promoting digital technologies in schools. ...
The fear factor giving way to the peer factor | Graham Newell
“The inspiring future of school improvement lies in the fear factor giving way to the peer factor.” Hargreaves and Shirley,...
In Praise of the Quietly Innovative | Maggie Farrar
I have to confess I have always been a little sceptical of those leaders who describe themselves as ‘innovative’. Why?...
Building character is an important part of a whole education for all young people
There’s a big welcome from Whole Education for the announcement from the Secretary of State, Nicky Morgan, of a £5m...
Why the Time is Right to Commit to a Whole Education | David Crossley
In a SecEd article < http://www.sec-ed.co.uk/best-practice/its-time-to-commit-to-a-whole-education> I put forward that the time is right for our education system to commit...