Teach Secondary - Issue 13.2

2 Actionable assessments Do you have a clear understanding of your students’ wellbeing? The Cambridge Wellbeing Check provides insight into your students’ feelings, helping you to assess their wellbeing and improve your teaching with actionable reports. The Wellbeing Check is a simple, digital, student-led assessment that takes about 20 minutes. The reports help teachers see a complete picture of wellbeing at individual, class and whole-school levels. Highly commended in the 2023 Teach Secondary Awards, the Wellbeing Check is now available for £1 per student and can be administered multiple times throughout the academic year. To find out more, visit cem.org/wellbeing or contact Suzanne Tipping via suzanne.tipping@cambridge.org . 3 Get that freedom feeling Join over 9,000 schools, academies and trusts in the UK that have embraced the freedom feeling. Whether you’re a maintained school, independent institution, part of a MAT or with a Local Authority, Access Education software is your gateway to enhanced efficiency and engagement. Enjoy effortless operations management, engaging curriculum content and robust people and parent engagement solutions – all in one place. For more information, visit theaccessgroup.com/education – we’re making every school day simpler. 1 Building skills Academy21 works in partnership with schools, LAs, pupil referral units and others to ensure that students receive the best support possible. At KS3, our Skills Builder courses are designed to provide the knowledge and skills students need to progress onto their GCSEs. At KS4, many of our subjects can be studied for one or two years depending on need; to those for whom GCSEs aren’t appropriate, we can offer a range of functional skills courses.We can accept students right up to the end of the term, with no cut-off point, which means Y11s can be placed at any time throughout the year. Learn about our full range of provision by visiting academy21.co.uk or email contact@academy21.co.uk to get started. What’s New? Our pick of the latest solutions and innovations for secondary education High-quality history Do you want to improve your history provision using a structured and tested framework? Look no further than the Historical Association Quality Mark. It’s the perfect way to develop, evaluate and gain recognition for the achievements of your staff and pupils, while creating a legacy of high-quality history at your school. The Historical Association also offers a range of CPD courses alongside the Quality Mark to support teachers in making a lasting difference to your standards of history provision. For more information, visit history.org.uk/go/quality Cyber saviours Could your students be the ones to keep our nation safe in the future? Cyber Explorers, a UK government initiative, offers a free, engaging platform to help 11- to 14-year- olds develop cyber security skills in a gamified learning experience. Launched to address the UK’s cyber skills gap, it equips students with essential digital skills while fostering their interest in GSCE computer science and cyber security careers. Suitable for in-class or at-home online learning, this free resource for schools inspires students to choose computer studies and open their eyes to careers full of opportunities, which will truly be in demand! Register your explorers at cyberexplorers.co.uk 5 4 teachwire.net/secondary PA R T N E R C O N T E N T 64