Category: NQT

  As schools reopen and lockdown restrictions gradually ease, we encourage all our supply staff to participate in bi-weekly lateral flow testing. Regular testing is quick and painless and when combined with other protective measures will help keep you and schools safe. Regular testing will be delivered via a number of ...

  In light of the current and ongoing situation, Schools are having to adapt and streamline their traditional recruitment methodology with ‘virtual interviews’ likely to become the new norm for the short term. Software and online platforms such as Skype, Zoom and Microsoft Teams are increasingly being used to replace ...

  A recent update published by Schools Improvement demonstrates the far-reaching benefits that encouraging a love of reading from an early age has for a child, if done correctly. These include; developing a child’s general knowledge, vocabulary growth, improved writing ability, development of empathy and help to cultivate imagination. However, despite ...

Flexible working for teaching staff within Schools, a phenomenon recently encouraged as part of the 2019 DFE teacher recruitment and retention strategy launched by Damian Hinds, has had a long lasting positive impact with the schools that we have offered our ‘Flexi’ services to, ever since its launch in 2018. ...

justteachers will always be supporters of Flexible Working initiatives, particularly in Education (demonstrated the launch of our Flexi scheme, introduced back in 2018) and we are continually encouraged by the influx of powerful voices driving forward the message of the importance of work/life balance. We recently saw a fantastic video ...

From an early age, it is so important to encourage children to own and share their beliefs, opinions and feelings with their peers in a respectful manner. Nothing highlighted this more than the work one of our partner Primary Schools has undertaken over the last few years by implementing their ...

We fully support and recognise the driving factors behind the recent DfE Recruitment and Retention strategy, in order to ensure teachers are given the vital support in their early career and throughout – notably the emphasis on job sharing and flexible working conditions. Our passion and belief in this is ...

World Autism Awareness Week 2019. Recognising and supporting a child with autism   Teachers will undoubtedly work with an autistic pupil at some point in their career, who may or may not have already been diagnosed as being on the autistic spectrum. This makes being aware of the signs and ...

Congratulations to Beckfoot Phoenix and their ‘Green Base’ Class winning pupil! We are thrilled to be announcing the winner of our ‘World Book Day’ bookmark competition. We had literally hundreds of entries from schools nationwide, which made for a very difficult decision in selecting a winner- but we are excited ...