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Calendars for the school year 2022/23 for the United Kingdom as templates in PDF format to download and print. The calendars run from August 1st, 2022 to July 31st, 2023. Years are marked in different colours for easy identification. Suitable for use as a teacher calendar, class calendar, student calendar, assignment calendar, homework calendar ...
Jan 4, 2022 · alternative school calendars. The REA takes the form of a literature review, and examines evidence derived from 33 resources, including studies from Wales, the wider UK, and the USA. The aim of the REA was to examine whether (and if so, how) changes to the school calendar and alternative school calendars, affected student learning,
Calendars for the academic year 2022/23 for the United Kingdom as templates in PDF format to download and print. The calendars are designed for the UK academic year and run from September 1st, 2022 to August 31st, 2023. Years are marked in different colours for easy identification. Suitable for use as a student calendar, undergraduate calendar ...
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- The Current State of Children’s Education and Personal Development
- Identifying Gaps in Learning
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In December 2021, we published a briefing on the continued effects of the pandemic and education recovery in schools. The effects of the pandemic on pupils, staff and leaders were evident. It was clear that many schools were working hard to respond to these challenges, including helping pupils to catch up academically. In this briefing, we draw on ...
In this briefing, we draw on evidence collected during routine inspections and through focus group discussions with school inspectors. We use this to illustrate: 1. how the pandemic continues to impact on pupils’ learning and personal development 2. how schools are finding out what pupils do and do not know 3. effective approaches that schools are ...
Ongoing COVID-related absence
During January 2022, the pandemic continued to reduce pupils’ attendance in many schools. Data from the Department for Education (DfE) shows an increase in pupils not attending school for COVID-related reasons during January, but this reduced before the spring half term.[footnote 2]During January, we saw a larger proportion of pupils being absent during inspections than during the autumn term. In some schools, this was a few pupils; in others, many pupils were off with COVID-19. Some leaders...
Knowledge and skills
Our December briefing reported that pupils’ subject-specific knowledge and skills continued to be affected by the pandemic. This was either because content had not been taught when schools were partially closed or because pupils did not learn well remotely. In January 2022, school leaders described similar gaps in: 1. mathematics 2. phonics 3. reading 4. writing stamina and handwriting 5. languages, particularly in pupils’ speaking and listening skills 6. physical education (PE) Leaders tende...
Mental health and well-being
Many leaders said that the pandemic has had a negative impact on some pupils’ mental health and emotional well-being. As reported in our December briefing, they continued to have concerns about pupils having lower resilience and confidence and greater anxiety. For some pupils, the impact of the pandemic had been most noticeable when they first went back to school, but others were still experiencing poorer well-being in the spring term. In some schools, safeguarding concerns and disclosures ha...
Assessment practices
Pandemic disruption resulted in gaps in many pupils’ learning, either because content had not been taught during lockdowns or because pupils did not learn well remotely. Schools were using assessment to understand what pupils have (and have not) remembered. This information helped leaders and teachers to adapt the curriculum appropriately so that pupils had the secure base they needed to access new content. In addition, most leaders were using assessment information to identify and target pup...
Facilitating effective assessment practices to identify gaps in learning
Teachers were using their normal practices to identify gaps. Understanding what makes assessment effective for identifying gaps, and therefore helping pupils catch up, is especially important in the context of education recovery. However, the findings may apply more widely than recovery from the pandemic. What is appropriate in terms of assessment will also vary by subject area.[footnote 4] We have seen the importance of strong leadership for effective assessment. Strong leaders tended to hav...
Preparing for national assessments
We found that there was a strong but understandable focus on assessing pupils in Years 11 and 13. The uncertainty over summer exams had led to some schools focusing significantly on collecting evidence of pupils’ attainment in case it was required by exam boards for teacher-assessed grades. Ofqual has now released more information on this, which has provided some clarity for schools.[footnote 6] Schools were also preparing pupils for their first external exams. Inspection evidence showed that...
Adaptations to the curriculum
This term, many schools are continuing to adapt their curriculum. We saw a continuation of a lot of the practice that we reported in our December briefing. Leaders described how they would take time to fill gaps and ensure that key concepts were secure before continuing learning, and ‘not just plough on’. Some schools are continuing to adapt their curriculum by: 1. teaching what has been missed 2. providing opportunities across the curriculum for a lot of repetition, retrieval and revision of...
Targeted support and tutoring
Schools used assessment to identify pupils or groups of pupils for focused support. This was often through group or one-to-one interventions. For example, some offered additional teaching in an afternoon session or through ‘pre-teaching’ before a whole-class lesson. Frequent assessment ensured that these groupings were constantly adjusted and responded to pupils’ specific needs. This was particularly common in phonics and mathematics, but also in other subjects to help pupils who have been ab...
Staffing
Staff absence, primarily due to COVID-19 cases, hit schools particularly hard in the spring term. Data from the DfE shows that staff absence increased between December 2021 and January 2022. Around 5% of teachers and school leaders were estimated to be absent in January due to COVID-related reasons.[footnote 8] This has been compounded by the existing national shortage of teaching staff,[footnote 9]along with challenges finding cover. Some schools filled staff absence by employing supply teac...
External barriers
Circumstances outside schools’ control have affected or continue to affect how they help pupils to catch up. These include: 1. delays and changes to external services 2. changing COVID-19 guidance and advice 3. additional COVID-related duties 4. challenging community contexts Schools have had difficulties accessing external services such as mental health services, therapists and local authorities because they have been unable to come into schools or have long waiting lists. Accessing expertis...
Support
Although schools are still facing some significant external barriers, they have been supported in their recovery by academy trusts and local authorities. We found that most academy schools have been supported by their trust or multi-academy trust (MAT). Some MATsprovided centralised assistance, including: 1. pooling resources 2. using trust-wide curriculums to identify the sequence and progression of subjects 3. using trust-wide moderation to identify gaps in pupils’ knowledge Others offered...
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Template 7: School year calendar 2021/22 (UK) portrait, year at a glance. runs from August 1st, 2021to July 31st, 2022. one A4 page, portrait orientation (vertical) years marked in different colours for easier identification. UK version with bank holidays and week numbers. in PDFformat (.pdf file) Download template 7.
Find your child’s school term, half term and holiday dates on your local council’s website. School term and holiday dates vary across the UK. Enter a postcode. For example SW1A 2AA. Find. Find ...
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Aug 1, 2022 · Free printable calendar templates for the school year 2022/23 in Adobe PDF format. 2022/23 school year calendars running from August 1, 2022 to July 31, 2023. Version for the United States. Free to download and print. Suitable for use as a teacher or instructor calendar, class calendar, student calendar, assignment, assessment and homework ...
