by Richard Ige | Jun 14, 2026 | Attainment Gap, Belonging, Continued Professional Development, Department for Education, Disadvantaged Pupils, Early Intervention, Permanent Exclusion, Primary Education, SEND & Inclusion, Suspension Rates, Uncategorised
If someone had told me that just over a year after founding PGS-Educators we would be holding our first annual event at Lilian Baylis Technology School in front of around 100 attendees, I would have described it as ambitious. What began as a relatively small-scale...
by Theresa Moses | Jun 7, 2026 | Belonging, Continued Professional Development, Early Intervention, Primary Education, SEND & Inclusion, Uncategorised
After nearly 30 years in education, I have come to a simple conclusion: many of the challenges we associate with later childhood – anxiety, disengagement, behaviour, fractured relationships with school, and a reduced sense of belonging – often begin much...
by Raj Blanchard | Mar 22, 2026 | Uncategorised
Early Teaching Career My career in education began over 25 years ago. Originally from the West Midlands, I moved to South-East London to teach at my first school in Camberwell. I still remember my Headteacher, Florence Olajide, and remain in contact with her to this...
by Diane Thompson | Feb 3, 2026 | Disadvantaged Pupils, Primary Education, SEND & Inclusion, Uncategorised
Leadership in education has never been about comfort for me. If it were, I would have turned around on day one of my first headship and quietly pretended I’d taken a wrong turn. That first school had a ten-year history of Requires Improvement. The trust was under a...
by Richard Ige | Jan 17, 2026 | Department for Education, high suspension rates, Permanent Exclusion, SEND & Inclusion, Suspension Rates, Uncategorised
What a start to the year it has been. My understanding of leadership has fundamentally changed. Stepping fully into my role as Founder and CEO, transitioning from senior leadership, has reinforced a simple but powerful truth: life is neither binary nor linear. We will...
