What is a Cover Supervisor? Cover Supervisors are suitably trained school staff who supervise pupils carrying out pre-prepared lessons when teaching staff are on short-term absence. The Cover Supervisor’s main job is to manage a classroom, ensuring that students...
Supply Teachers and Teaching Assistants are increasingly essential for schools especially during the first few months after the New Year festivities. As a supply teacher, what time should I expect a call? As we enter into the busy season for supply teachers, with...
Getting reluctant readers to read rather than play computer games One of my children isn’t keen on reading books and I’m still waiting for him to get into something that captivates him. We read together regularly and go to book shops and do all the things one would...
4myschools are delighted to support the Suffolk Primary Headteachers Association (SPHA) conference for a third year, sponsoring Andy Buck, ex headteacher of an outstanding East London school where Andy was designated a National Leader of Education. In 2014 Andy...
The National Union of Teachers NUT’s recent June 2015 supply teacher survey results offer some interesting findings from 6.5% (1,300 members) of their supply teacher membership that responded to their online survey. Here are some of the findings. What is the main...
Why is Education Audit Certification good? In the not so distant past the Department for Education supported the audit of teaching supply agencies to help ensure standards where being met in particular around safeguarding of children. Most professional supply teacher...