Pearson Schools Blog

Clinical Psychologist, Dr Helen Care, shares her views on children's resilience during the pandemic and supporting this as we look ahead. 

Today’s classrooms are evolving with creativity, thanks in part to new, engaging tools for online learning. In this latest blog post to celebrate International Internet Day, we salute the integral, and continuously evolving role of the internet in UK schools – both now, and for the future.

Are you keen to see more changes in how black history and black experiences are represented in schools? Your next role model might well be this inspiring student…

This blog provides some tips for KS1 teachers, although a lot of the ideas can be applied throughout Y1-6. 

"Boys do read - sometimes more than girls. They just don't talk about it as much, or pretend they're reading, as some girls do, to keep you happy!" The authentic voice of real-life experience from leading school librarian Eileen Armstrong, with whom I collaborated to produce the government-backed ‘Boys into Books’ initiative back in 2007. Is the issue of boys’ reading still ‘a thing’, 14 years on? 

As we come up to half term, will you be assessing children using the half-termly Power Maths Progress Tests? Don’t forget that you can enter scores into the online Markbook to track and analyse results against age-related expectations.

If you were asked to quickly picture a mathematician in your mind, what would that person look like? How old would they be? What gender? And what about the colour of their skin?  
 
To mark this year’s Black History Month, we consider how to best achieve Maths diversity, with the wisdom of Susan Okereke. 

Your October Primary Update

In June this year, we kicked off our Share a Read campaign to encourage more people to pick up a book and feel the benefits of reading for pleasure. We wanted you to discover new books and share the joy of reading them with everyone.