Herts For Learning

Happy International Friendship Day 🥰

Arts, crafts, and history! St Albans Cathedral are hosting free Family Discovery Mornings throughout August, starting this Thursday with the theme of 'Radical Romans' 🏛️🎨

If your children love their colouring pencils, this might be the perfect competition for them 🎨 Entries close Sunday 4th August!

Know someone with songwriting talent? Here's an opportunity to share it with a much bigger audience... 🎼

Ready to start your career? We currently have three #apprenticeship vacancies:
📌 Corporate ICT Apprentice 📌 Business Admin Apprentice 📌 Business Admin Apprentice (Business Services)
... Visit our website to find out more and apply.
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We are excited to share that we have signed a deal with HarperCollins UK, a division of HarperCollins Publishers, to produce seven new primary English publications.
In September, our English Subject Leader Toolkit and Primary Writing Toolkit will be published under the Collins imprint and made available to all schools in the UK and internationally 🥳
Read the full story on our website ⬇️

Looking for family fun? This weekend's Festival of Wildlife at Panshanger Park is free to attend and celebrates our rich diversity of wildlife in #Hertfordshire 🌳⬇️

Take a minute to read this warming Tes Institute article from Dr Emma Kell – a reminder that pupils can teach us as much as we teach them 💌

Clare Hodgson, Assessment Adviser, takes a look at the common mistakes made by schools when implementing and embedding a growth mindset culture and how these can be overcome.

A new Staff Wellbeing dimension of our Wellbeing Quality Mark has been drawn up in collaboration with our School HR Services team. It recognises that staff health and wellbeing is a crucial factor in maximising young pupil’s attainment and wellbeing.
The application deadline for the year-long programme is Monday 9th September, with the launch event on Friday 13th September. Visit our website to find out more.

We're delighted to announce that two of our resources – Supersonic Phonics and Essential foundations for counting – have been shortlisted in the 2019 Teach Early Years Awards! Congratulations HfL Early Years 💪 #TEYawards

There's still time to book on to one of our projects or programmes. With choices from spelling to science, browse our full list to find out what you can bring to your classroom in autumn 2019.

Our very own Assessment Adviser, Sophie MacNeill, is featured in the latest Teach Primary magazine! Read on the Teachwire website 📰👉

Improve the trajectory of your Year 1 pupils towards meeting the phonics check threshold by taking part in our autumn term Project. Visit our website to find out more and book.

A great opportunity to celebrate your classroom's achievements this year! 👇

Following analysis of the results from our KS2 Reading Fluency Project over several years, the Primary English team have found that taking part in the project in the autumn term has the most impact for the outcomes in participating schools. This allows more time for the strategies to be embedded and applied at a whole class level throughout the spring term.
To this end, the team have now decided to only run the project for Year 6 pupils in the autumn term (rather than in both autumn & spring).
Click below to find out more about or join this autumn’s project, starting on Monday 9th September 2019.

Have you downloaded your free copy of 50 Things you can with Chromebooks in the classroom yet?