Making Key Stage 3 Count - Second Edition: How to improve pupil progress in Years 7, 8 and 9

"The most influential book I read as a headteacher. This book is a MUST for senior leaders."

UPDATED AND EXPANDED SECOND EDITION FOR 2017

Offering help and advice on how to lead Years 7, 8 and 9 in order to ensure that those three years of a child's education that constitute Key Stage 3 do not prove to be time wasted during which the attainment gap is allowed to widen but are – instead - fruitful, enjoyable and rewarding.

This book will help you to:

1 Ensure your Key Stage 3 curriculum is broad and balanced and teaching is of a high quality and prepares pupils for more challenging subsequent study at GCSE

2 Improve pupil transition from Key Stage 2 to 3 so that it focuses as much on academic needs as it does on the pastoral

3 Ensure marking and assessment at Key Stage 3 is robust and focuses on the needs of disadvantaged pupils, including the high-performing, in order to close achievement gaps quickly

4 Ensure homework helps pupils to make good progress, and develop effective literacy and numeracy strategies.