We were delighted to welcome Ofsted's Sean Harford as keynote speaker at the Frog19 Conference. Here's his messaging around the new Education Inspection Framework coming into effect this September.

Westminster C of E Primary Academy in West Yorkshire took part in the FrogPlay World Championships for the first time in March this year when two of their pupils emerged 1st and 2nd place against 1 million competitors worldwide.

The Frog19 Conference was held on 27 June. The day opened with a curriculum focus, led by keynote Sean Harford, National Director, Education - Ofsted.

The Frog Conference open to Frog and non-Frog schools. Learn about the Ofsted Inspection Framework from Sean Harford - National Director, Education - (Ofsted).

Edtech, short for education technology, is a term that has been used in schools and on the education scene for a number of years. Schools are using edtech to find solutions to everything from easing administrative tasks (timetabling, scheduling, class management) and streamlining the home learning process (with online homework management software) to revolutionising how children engage with home learning by using gamification as a reward for completing tasks

A World Economic Forum report recently estimated that 65% of children starting primary school today will be doing jobs that don’t yet exist. This is a surprising revelation and prompts the question – how will schools prepare students for the future workplace? If we can’t know exactly what the jobs will be or the skills required to do them, how can schools prepare children and open their eyes to future opportunities?

The gamification of learning is an approach used to engage students through the use of video game and game elements in educational environments, such as the class room, but has now been extended to home learning through homework management software that uses gameplay.

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Frog joins BESA LearnED roadshow

The ‘should schools be setting homework?’ debate is age-old and well-trodden, offering different opinions from pupils, teachers, parents, educational specialists and even neurologists. Is homework ...