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Changing Course on Climate

09 Feb 2024

The global publishing and assessment arm of the University of Cambridge is calling on teachers in 160 countries to help improve climate change...

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ROOTS concert at Trinity College Cambridge

A new educational initiative – Roots – makes music a priority

25 Mar 2019

Cambridge researchers and musicians are helping to support schools in Cambridgeshire to deliver high quality and sustainable music provision over the...

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Details from artwork commissioned by the University of Cambridge Primary School featuring paintings by the pupils

We are all 'others': teaching children to celebrate differences

23 Nov 2018

As the world around us increasingly divides into ‘us and others’, the University of Cambridge Primary School is taking part in a new research project...

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Releasing the imagination: the University of Cambridge Primary School

02 Nov 2018

More than just an outstanding Ofsted rating sets the University of Cambridge Primary School apart: it places research at its heart, informing...

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Teaching EAL students

Improving support for pupils with English as an additional language

08 Jul 2016

A new report on UK school pupils who speak English as an additional language (EAL) argues that their progression in English language proficiency...

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Back to school (crop)

New index of children’s ‘school readiness’ highlights importance of family support

28 May 2015

The importance of family support on a child’s ‘school readiness’ is highlighted in a study published this month in the British Journal of Educational...

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Thought

Project seeks nation’s most memorised poems to investigate power of poetry ‘by heart’

02 Oct 2014

By aiming to discover the UK’s most memorised poems, a new research project – backed by a former Poet Laureate – will explore the poems that live in...

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James Biddulph to be University of Cambridge Primary School's first Headteacher

12 Sep 2014

The University of Cambridge Primary School Trust has appointed Mr James Biddulph BA PGCE MA MEd as the school’s first Headteacher.

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Science Festival at Chemistry Dept

Out-of-the-box learning

21 Jun 2012

A new book documents how staff at a primary school built on a previous study by Cambridge researchers to create an inclusive learning environment -...

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Empty swingset

A Class Apart

26 May 2010

Despite our best efforts, social mobility in the UK does not seem to be improving. Diane Reay, Professor of Education at the University of Cambridge...

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School Road - road sign in Shirley

Cambridge Primary Review publishes final report

15 Oct 2009

The Cambridge Primary Review, based at the University's Faculty of Education has published its final report on the condition and future of English...

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