Phil Yeeles

By Phil Yeeles and Abi Angus This week marks Neurodiversity Celebration Week, as well as a big step up in COVID-19 prevention strategies across the UK. Many of you will be adjusting to working from home for the first time, or getting used to a big increase in working from home. It feels like a great time to share some of the strategies used by neurodiverse members of our team to effectively work from home. Although we’ve written this from this perspective, we hope it’s useful to everyone.

The NAHT have today released a damning report detailing their members’ response to the Government’s pilot of the new multiplication tables ‘check’ (MTC) for children in Year 4. The test has been an educationally dubious waste of time and money, hastily implemented and with multiple technical flaws. As LKMco’s resident ex-Year 4 teacher, I’ve gone ahead and highlighted the five areas that shocked me most about this pilot. So, without further ado, my top five:– 1.

Technology is often presented as a means of empowerment within education, but we are in danger of actively holding pupils back by ignoring the inherent class bias of this narrative. I recently attended Bett, a large educational technology expo held annually at the ExCeL London. There were many impressive products available to preview, from a broad variety of vendors, and a long list of speakers from the great and good of the edtech sector.