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Wonder Words of wisdom

We are proud to share articles from our Wonder Team who provide useful insights in their fields of expertise. Discover more about our family through our passion for celebrating the hard work and the wonderful achievements of pupils and colleagues.

Learning Distractors

To view or not to view; what is a distractor? I often participate in training sessions where the...

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Executive Functioning

Secondary School Transition - NASEN’s SEND conference. While the term “executive functioning” is no doubt familiar to early...

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Happiness Heroes

Pocklington Junior School has launched its myHappymind programme which is designed for schools to help prepare today’s children...

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Empowering Feedback

As part of our Trust’s commitment to ‘living our values into being’ we start this year by thanking...

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Commendation for GCSE pupil

Staff were delighted to celebrate with pupils, Sixth Form students and their families as this year’s A Level...

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Results Success!

We are delighted and proud to announce an amazing set of results for our Year 13 students today...

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Kingfisher Data Management

As a Trust we have developed a proprietary data management system called Kingfisher. It began fundamentally as a...

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Introducing Whitby School

We are delighted to share the new identity for Whitby School as we bring the school communities of...

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The difference an effective teacher makes

The recent release of the NASEN Teacher Handbook: SEND makes this clear. Here, the importance of the role...

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Opening Doors with Effective Writing

In September 2023, Trust primaries met for a full-day workshop on writing. The workshop represented a culmination of...

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Sharing Success with Local MP

Graham Stuart MP met pupils and staff at Longcroft School and Sixth Form to see for himself the...

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Empower Big Conversation

How do we empower our school communities? As the three project groups get underway from our Big Conversation...

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The Wonder of Play

The benefits of play We believe that creativity, positive experiences of learning, independence, and challenge are best delivered...

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Scientists experience Virtual Reality!

Through the creation of immersive, interactive environments that improve learning, simulate real-world scenarios, and enhance empathy, virtual reality...

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Effective Feedback

There is no such thing as a silver bullet in education, but effective feedback comes very close. The...

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Teach with Wonder

We hear from Jess and Elliott, two of our current Physical Education student teachers, about their experience. “From...

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Achieving Compliance

The Wonder Learning Partnership’s Estates and Compliance team work closely with our family of schools to support the...

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Curriculum Intent & Curriculum Courage

In designing a curriculum – given its prevalence in the judgement of quality of education – much pre-eminence...

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Ofsted outcome adds to national recognition for Longcroft School

Longcroft School and Sixth Form are celebrating the outcome of their recent Section 5 Ofsted Inspection, which has...

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Reading and Vocabulary

Wittgenstein said that “the limits of my language mean the limits of my world”. While linguists now agree...

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Curriculum Conversation: Making the Connection

In the primary setting, as one teacher for the most part will deliver the full curriculum, interleaving within...

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Behave Yourself: The critical role of the curriculum

So…you have drafted or revised your behaviour guidance? You are confident that it now links explicitly to your...

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The Curriculum Conversation

The curriculum conversation starts with this contribution from Prime Minister James Callaghan – then Prime Minister – taken...

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Curriculum Rationale

Ofsted’s School Inspection Handbook states that “inspectors will consider the extent to which the school’s curriculum sets out...

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Welcome to the Haematology Department!

Pupils at Melbourne Primary School have taken their learning to a new level already this term by making...

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The Big Conversation – Series 1: Our Vision

Welcome to ‘The Big Conversation’ at the Wonder Learning Partnership where you can be a part of shaping...

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What is Female Genital Mutilation or FGM?

The World Health Organisation defines FGM as “…all procedures that involve partial or total removal of the external...

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The Benefits of Peer Observation in Teaching: Learning from Each Other

Malcolm Gladwell first introduced the notion of the ‘10,000-hour rule’ to a mass audience in his book ‘Outliers’...

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Governor Link Role: SEND

All governing boards should have a governor with specific oversight of the school’s arrangements for pupils and students...

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