ABSTRACT

Key Issues for Primary Schools is a concise comprehensive guide to the main issues in primary education and the implications for schools. Presented in a convenient A-Z format, the book includes coverage of:
* special educational needs
* attendance, truancy and exclusion
* bullying and behavioural problems
* management and administration
* safety and security.
There is also a review of up-to-date DfEE requirements and suggestions for further action and reading. The addresses of useful contacts help to make it a reference book no primary school should be without.

chapter |4 pages

Admissions

Towards Greater Transparency and Equity

chapter |5 pages

Appraisal

An Integrated System

chapter |5 pages

Assessment Complexities

chapter |5 pages

Attendance

Improving Pupil Attendance

chapter |4 pages

Baseline Assessment

Strengths and Limitations

chapter |4 pages

Behaviour and its Improvement

chapter |5 pages

Benchmarking

A Machete Not a Scalpel

chapter |4 pages

Bullying

Not in Our School

chapter |4 pages

Child Protection

Awareness and Procedures

chapter |4 pages

Classroom Management

Developing Interrelated Skills

chapter |3 pages

Curriculum Changes

chapter |4 pages

Differentiation

The Importance of Planning

chapter |3 pages

Direct Teaching

Some Strengths and Weaknesses

chapter |4 pages

Early Years

Nursery Developments and Reception Classes

chapter |4 pages

Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties

chapter |4 pages

English as an Additional Language (EAL)

Guidelines and Confusions

chapter |4 pages

Equal Opportunities

Beyond the Platitudes

chapter |4 pages

Governing Bodies

Clarity about their Role

chapter |4 pages

Group Work

Learning Together

chapter |5 pages

Head Teachers

Leadership and Management

chapter |4 pages

Health and Safety

A Manageable Framework

chapter |4 pages

Homework

The Importance of Whole-School Planning

chapter |4 pages

Inclusion

Ideology or Pragmatism?

chapter |4 pages

Information and Communications Technology

Exciting Developments

chapter |4 pages

Initial Teacher Training

Routes and Structures

chapter |4 pages

Inspection

Getting the Most from it

chapter |4 pages

Learning Resources and their Full Use

chapter |4 pages

Literacy

A National Strategy

chapter |4 pages

Marketing the Primary School

chapter |4 pages

Media Management for the School

chapter |4 pages

Numeracy

chapter |4 pages

Parents and the Community

Improving Partnership

chapter |4 pages

Planning for Teaching and Learning

chapter |4 pages

Project Management in Primary Education

chapter |4 pages

Research

Action Research in the School

chapter |4 pages

Security of the School

chapter |5 pages

Sex Education

Steering a Steady Course

chapter |4 pages

Spiritual, Moral, Social and Cultural Development

Complex Interrelationships

chapter |5 pages

Standards

The New Watchword

chapter |4 pages

Support for Children

Maximising Outside Help

chapter |5 pages

Target Setting

chapter |4 pages

Teaching Assistants and Associates

chapter |4 pages

Very Able Pupils