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QuickReads

Concise digests of reforms, policy changes and new guidance

• QuickRead: Planning, preparation and assessment (PPA) time

In-depth articles

• Can PPA time be used for attending appointments?
• Management time
• PPA time: rules and eligibility
• PPA time: scheduling and organising updated
• PPA: using support staff for cover
• Use of 'gained time' in schools

Employment law and contracts: guides for school leaders

A concise overview of the key aspects that apply to school staff.

Upcoming changes in employment law

Changes include mandatory gender pay gap reporting and the apprenticeship levy

More from The Key

CPD Toolkit from The Key

Everything you need to deliver high-impact in-school training.

Ready-made presentations, facilitator notes, videos, handouts and more ...

• What is assessment, in a classroom context? (free sample session)
• Defining and identifying more able pupils (free sample session)
• Differentiation: supporting all pupils (free sample session)

Calendars and planners

• Key dates for school leaders updated
• Assembly and national awareness days: key dates
• Interactive online calendar for school leaders

Interviewing teachers

• Interview questions: teacher (primary)
• Interview questions: teacher (secondary)
• Interview questions: subject leader (primary)

Improvement strategies

• Central services in multi-academy trusts (MAT)
• Forming a multi-academy trust (MAT)
• MATs: due diligence on joining schools

Policy bank

• Statutory policies and documents for schools
• Accessibility plans and policies updated
• Lockdown procedures: guidance and examples

In the news 21 Sep 2017

• News briefing: 11-15 September 2017 15 Sep 2017 08:00 new
• Need-to-know: Government's primary assessment consultation leads to scrapping of KS1 SATs from 2023 14 Sep 2017 16:03 new
• Need-to-know: National funding formula and high needs funding formula confirmed 14 Sep 2017 16:02 new
• News briefing: 4-8 September 2017 8 Sep 2017 08:00 new
• Need-to-know: New Academies Financial Handbook requirements now in effect 1 Sep 2017 09:00 new

Recently added

• Healthy school policies new
• Ofsted: what to expect this year new
• Tracking interventions: small infant schools new
• High needs funding formula: a summary new
• National funding formula: a summary new