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This guide is for both parents of school-educated children and their teachers. Neither signed up for home-schooling, yet here we are. We are all making changes due to the impact of coronavirus on education. Jam-packed full of resources to make the coming weeks and months easier, for parents and teachers, this guide will enable you to feel confident that children’s learning is continuing, albeit in a different way.

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Following the outbreak of the Coronavirus the education sector finds itself in a period of uncertainty. Following the Government’s advice yesterday on limiting attendance at schools throughout the UK we would like to reiterate that the team at Educater remain available to provide support during these unprecedented times.

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Teachers love teaching but hate the paperwork and so primary report writing isn’t something they look forward to. In fact, for many teachers primary report writing is a monumental chore that eats away at their well-being and sanity because they are so time-consuming. But they have to do it - the Department for Education requires schools to prepare annual school reports for every pupil’s parents.

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It only takes a slight tweak in an Ofsted framework and suddenly there’s a new buzzword on everyone’s lips. This time it’s ‘curriculum’ and in my opinion, not before time. 

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There was a time in education when schools just happily went about their business and waited for the dreaded Ofsted inspection call and subsequent inspection to be told how well they were performing. Not exactly the most pro-active of approaches to school improvement, but in the 80’s and 90’s, that didn’t seem to be at the top of every school leader’s priority list.

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