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What's Working in Schools: EBSA Practice That Makes a Difference absenteeism accessible classrooms attendance case study ebsa emotional based school avoidance school refusal school support teachers Oct 16, 2025

This is the second blog in our series exploring barriers to education. In the first blog, Shannon Hatton-Corcoran and Rachel Lyons introduced the WARMTH framework - six foundations to reduce barriers to education, recognising that declining attendance is a symptom of unmet need requiring compassiona...

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Case Study: Mastering the First 100 High-Frequency Words through Precision Teaching case study confidence development learning and cognition literacy diffculties precision teaching reading teachers Feb 17, 2023

The Starting Line: Reading Woes in a Year 1 Classroom

As a Year 1 teacher in a three form entry Manchester primary school, I grappled with a common yet disheartening issue: the wide range of reading abilities among the children in my class. While some were doing well and able to read CCVC words as ...

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