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Curriculum, teaching and support
5 steps to create an inclusive and challenging curriculum
Donna Lee | 02 February 2026

Designing a curriculum that is both inclusive and challenging is essential for ensuring every learner thrives. At Nettlesworth Primary School, we’ve worked hard to create an approach that raises expectations for all while celebrating diversity and individual strengths...

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Curriculum, teaching and support
How can we support more able learners in the English classroom?
Anthony Cockerill | 03 February 2026

English teachers must move beyond superficial forms of challenge and devise sequences of lessons that genuinely push, inspire and develop more able learners – says Anthony Cockerill, Director of the National Association for the Teaching of English (NATE)...

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Curriculum, teaching and support
Beyond the silence: recognising more able learners within EAL
Misba Mir | 02 February 2026

Misba Mir, Deputy Headteacher at Carlton Junior and Infant School, on the importance of recognising the abilities of EAL learners, ensuring that language proficiency does not become the lens through which all other abilities are judged...

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Leadership and governance
Leadership, creativity and confidence: teacher perspectives on improving more able provision
Professor Stephanie West | 02 February 2026

Professor West shares key recommendations from her recent study into how primary school teachers experience teaching those pupils working at ‘greater depth’ standards - highlighting the importance of strong leadership, creativity and confidence...

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Curriculum, teaching and support
AI and adaptive teaching: embracing the challenge
Matt Kingston | 02 February 2026

Most teachers can recall spending hours preparing resources, only for unexpected issues such as IT failures, printer jams, or a difficult lesson to undermine the best of intentions. As a result, many have relied heavily on in-class adaptations to ensure accessibility – inevitably an uphill struggle...

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Curriculum, teaching and support
Curriculum making: bringing an ambitious knowledge-rich curriculum to life
Dr Richard Bustin | 02 February 2026

A curriculum is much more than a set of learning objectives or facts on a page. ‘Curriculum making’ describes the deliberate process that a teacher goes through to bring a curriculum to life. There are three main considerations: the subject, the student and the choices teachers make...

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