Exploring Design and Technology for KS3: Boost

The whole approach is making our children more excited and interested in reading, which is the best thing you could ask from a reading scheme.

SNAP Maths is a game changer for identifying specific learning needs and then taking steps to help children improve their fluency in important building blocks for good numeracy.

I particularly liked that this resource gives more than just a reading age. Standardised scores and information on literal comprehension, vocabulary, analysis, and inference strands of reading are invaluable to begin to understand each student’s needs.

Springboard Science is such an innovative approach to curriculum from Hodder Education. They backed Adam Boxer and the author team to develop things in a different way: resources are carefully sequenced, closely tied to the curriculum, and support teachers to plan lessons without being overly prescriptive.

My pupils like the way they can follow the content to help them with structuring their unit reports and the content itself prompts them with what they need to include to achieve top marking bands.