Pearson Schools Blog

With an ever-growing body of evidence suggesting high and increasing levels of mental health difficulties in children, alongside the significant majority of children with clinical levels of mental health need not being seen by mental health services, schools are under increasing pressure to provide mental health support themselves.

Danny Cuttell, Head of Extended Curriculum at Pearson, takes a look at feedback from the first Ofsted inspections. 

At Pearson, we’re on a mission to work together with teachers, senior leaders, parents and carers to build healthy and happy schools. Together, we can encourage conversation and create environments that foster positive wellbeing for pupils as well as staff.

Bobby Seagull, maths teacher, author, TV presenter and Chair of the Power of Maths Roundtable gives his take on maths anxiety.

At the Geographical Association (GA) conference in April 2019, Pearson polled geography teachers to find out what they felt was the most important skill their students would need in the future to be successful. The results clearly show that ‘critical thinking’ is the most important key skill that their students will need in the future to be successful. As a result of this poll Pearson asked me to share my thoughts about critical thinking and to provide some tips and tricks to help develop high-order thinking skills.