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Supporting an autistic child at home starts with understanding, not fixing, how they experience the world. This guide offers grounded, respectful advice on sensory needs, routines, communication, meltdowns and shutdowns, and working with school, written for parents who want practical help without judgement.
Executive function, not IQ, may be the strongest predictor of how children cope with school and life. Here's what working memory, self-control and cognitive flexibility actually look like day to day, and simple, everyday ways to build them without a single flashcard.
The Education Endowment Foundation's research is clear: the Velcro model of parking a TA beside the same pupil, lesson after lesson, tends to hold that pupil back rather than help them. Here's what the evidence actually recommends instead, from briefing and independence-building to rotation and the working relationship that makes it all stick.
Homework fights are one of the most common flashpoints in family life, and the evidence on whether homework even works is more nuanced than either side of the debate admits. This guide explains what the EEF's research actually shows by age, why evenings escalate, and practical ways to lower the temperature without abandoning homework altogether.
With primary rolls falling across much of England, schools are under real pressure to fill places. This piece looks at what the statutory Admissions Code actually permits, and what honest marketing, real open days, genuine testimonials, straight talk about what a school doesn't offer, looks like in practice.
The pandemic generated a huge amount of evidence on what actually works in remote teaching, and most of it contradicts what schools assumed at the time. Here's what the EEF's research and current DfE guidance say about long-term absence, flipped homework, revision content, and the access gap that hasn't gone away.
Why the parent conversation about a struggling pupil is harder than the letter home, and how to make it count. A practical guide to leading with specifics, structuring feedback so it doesn't feel patronising, handling a defensive or upset parent, and knowing when to bring in the SENCo.
Differentiation used to mean three worksheets and a lower ceiling for the low table. This piece unpacks the real DfE/EEF/Ofsted shift to adaptive teaching, the evidence that fixed grouping caps lower-attaining pupils, and five practical strategies that scaffold rather than simplify, without tripling your planning.
SEN funding is one of the most misunderstood parts of a school budget, moving through three separate layers before a penny reaches an EHCP placement. This guide walks headteachers and school business managers through how the notional SEN budget, high-needs top-up and EHCP funding actually flow, and how to talk to governors honestly about the pressure schools are under nationally.
Ofsted's current School Inspection Toolkit is blunt: individual lessons and teachers aren't graded. Here's what that means in practice, why a performance lesson usually backfires, and what actually helps you walk into a learning walk with confidence.
Hands up only tells you who's confident, not who's understood. Here's how hinge questions, mini-whiteboards, exit tickets and cold-calling give you a true read on the whole class, and the then-what decision most guidance skips: reteach now, flag for next lesson, or move on.
Access arrangements like extra time, readers and scribes are agreed in advance through your SENCo and exams officer, not decided on exam day. This primer walks teachers through the real JCQ process, what invigilators are actually required to do, and the mistakes that put results at risk.
