Helen Hamlyn Centre for Pedagogy – News

IOE researchers have established robust evidence of strong links between experiential learning and children’s science and maths performance, as well as cross-curricular skills that aid learning.

Think pieces by Professors Arthur Chapman, Michael Young, Lynn Ang and Dominic Wyse share their insights on curriculum theory and design in “Curriculum in a Changing World,” published last week by the British Educational Research Association (BERA).

To guarantee the future of primary education, a new government should prioritise children and teacher agency, widen the curriculum, and promote hands-on, experiential learning, researchers recommend.

Professor Dominic Wyse (UCL) and Charlotte Hacking (Centre for Literacy in Primary Education) present their rationale for a new ‘Double Helix’ model that would provide an effective, balanced approach to teaching reading and writing, and an alternative to synthetic phonics.

In the context of a cost-of-living crisis and increased child poverty, this podcast hears about the growing use of food banks, how they operate and the impact this has on children whose families use them.

IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society has recognised British philanthropist Lady Helen Hamlyn CBE with an Honorary Fellowship.

Schools are carrying an unequal burden of responding to long-term poverty that risks going unseen in policy, says a new report by IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society.

UCL has launched a new project to support primary school leaders and teachers to rethink their curriculum, in partnership with the Chartered College of Teaching.

High stakes assessments should be replaced by a system that prioritises children’s learning rather than holding schools and teachers to account, recommends an independent commission co-chaired by researchers at IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education and Society.

As SATS week begins in England, a new independent commission co-chaired by researchers at IOE has been launched today to review the role of assessment in primary schools and consider a new approach.

IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society, has been named Number 1 for Education in the QS World University Rankings by Subject for the ninth year in a row.

Dr Christine Callender and Dr Sam Sims from IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society, have won 2021 BERJ Editors’ Choice Awards for their journal articles.

The teaching of grammar in primary schools in England (a key feature of England’s national curriculum) does not appear to help children’s narrative writing, although it may help them generate sentences, according to new UCL-led research.

The main approach used to teach young children how to read in England needs urgent reform and does not follow the most robust evidence, say academics from IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society.

I am delighted to launch IOE’s year of celebrations to mark our 120th anniversary and our record of excellence, collaboration and impact.