In the light of the recent publication the EEF guidance, Marc Rowland talks to Emma Roselli about why positive relationships with families matter

The EEF have released their guidance report on parental engagement today. In this podcast Kate Atkins and Esther Gee discuss the report and what some of its recommendations look like in practice.

#ThrowbackFriday. Here is another opportunity to listen to this Rosendale Research School Podcast from a year ago. Its a fantastic conversation between Marc Rowland and Rob Webster about “Maximising the impact of teaching assistants”.

In this week's podcast staff at Rosendale School discuss self regulation in young children, the difficulties that some children have with this and what teachers can do in order to support them.

This week Kate Atkins and Marc Rowland share their thoughts on the effective use of the Pupil Premium, which is very much in the news at the moment following Becky Allen's recent blog on the subject.

Kate Atkins talks to Doug Cranston, PE Lead and Research School Associate about two conferences he has attended this week about Physical Activity in schools. Doug discusses the difficulties of getting academic research into schools and shares some tips for schools who want to get more physically active.

Link to TedX Talk as mentioned in podcast https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tARSCzHLF5g

Mathew Criddle talks to Kate Akins about the Doncaster Research School Conference.

Kate Atkins talks to Gavin Clowes from Kagan UK about how mixed attainment teaching and the use of cooperative and coaching structures supports brain friendly teaching.

This week's podcast looks at the links between the EEF guidance reports on maths in key stage 2 and 3 and the guidance report on metacognition and self regulated learning. Find out how teachers use these strategies to improve outcomes in maths.

Doug Cranston, Head of PE and Research School Associate talks to Kate Atkins about how he got a project funded last year to track children's activity rates at school and to encourage them to get more active.