Schools are abuzz with discussion about the pupil premium and brimming with questions about how this funding can be used most effectively. Graham Watts considers seven ways of spending the premium found to have ‘moderate impact’, from homework to summer schools

Ofsted’s annual report expresses concern that too many pupils are not making sufficient progress and provides indications of the ways schools can work to ‘close the gaps’. Christopher Robertson examines the parts of the report most relevant for SENCOs

Two weeks after Cerian Whiting became deputy headteacher at George Green’s, it was put into ‘notice to improve’. Here she explains the role that SEAL had in their recovery