Key stage 2

A resource for senior and middle leaders in primary and secondary schools. It builds on the National Strategies’ publication Narrowing the Gaps: from data analysis to impact – the golden thread (Ref: 00792-2009PDF-EN-01) and offers data workshops providing staff development materials that can be used to shape whole-school training, dedicated sessions for middle leaders and cross-phase workshops for families of schools. Ref: 00912-2009PDF-EN-07 Publication date: November 2009

This publication sets out ways to help primary schools to be more successful in narrowing the gaps in attainment in mathematics. Ref: 01082-2009BKT-EN Publication date: January 2010

Information on CPD modules which have been developed to enable local authorities and school leaders to focus training with school staff on meeting the needs of new arrivals in areas or schools where there is little experience of working with such pupils. Ref: 00041-2008DOM-EN Publication date: March 2008

Materials to support learning and teaching for bilingual children who are conversationally fluent in English. This resource provides the context and strategies needed to develop pupils’ speaking and listening as a tool for learning English. Includes Professional Development Modules (PDMs) and teaching units focusing on establishing curriculum targets, speaking and listening, integrated planning, culture and identity and assessment. Ref: 0013-2006PCK-EN Publication date: January 2006

This publication focuses on the effective use of data in primary and secondary schools and settings to focus and drive action to accelerate the progress of underachieving pupils entitled to free school meals (FSM). Ref: 00792-2009PDF-EN-01 Publication date: September 2009

Continuing professional development (CPD) materials designed to support school improvement and help settings and staff implement the DCSF focus on raising the attainment of Black African and Black Caribbean children. The three Units provide background information about the attainment gap in languages, and offer a series of activities, points for reflection and discussion, and suggestions for further reading. Ref: 00058-2008 Publication date: August 2008

These materials focus on what leaders and managers can do to accelerate the progress of children to narrow attainment gaps. Ref: 01021 2009PDF Publication date: November 2009

This guidance focuses primarily on meeting the needs of pupils who have arrived in school as a result of international migration. However, the guidance may be more widely applicable to a number of groups of mobile pupils who arrive in school outside standard admission times. Ref: 00650-2007BKT-EN Publication date: September 2007

This document aims to support school improvement partners (SIPs) in the key aspects of their role as these relate to outcomes for gifted and talented pupils and education. Ref: 00016-2009BKT-EN Publication date: January 2009