Aim: The aim of this research was to cast light on the nature of the relationship between teachers and teaching assistants. We wanted to find out: How schools were deploying teaching assistants; What responsibilities teachers were giving to teaching assistants and what expectations they had of them; What contributions teaching assistants were making to enable teachers to carry out their tasks more effectively.

Aim: The main aim of this project is to explore messages from student led research into classroom challenges and attitudes. This project on enhancing classroom challenge aims to understand our learners better and to develop our approach towards learning and teaching processes in relation to raising achievement.

Aim: To examine the extent to which teachers working in special schools have ownership of and are able to plan their professional learning.

Aim: Following a recent review of inclusion in the Special Needs Unit at our school, we felt it was appropriate to evaluate aspects of our existing strategies for inclusion. We wanted to discover more about pupils perceptions of their own learning, and their attitudes towards the classroom learning environment and identify features of current practice that supported the effective inclusion of pupils with special educational needs.

Aim: To explore how the findings from research into the use of mentoring to support year 11 C/D borderline students prior to their GCSE examinations have led to more advanced models of mentoring being introduced to the college.

Aim: To investigate the link between language and competence in algebra, highlight the problems experienced by pupils when learning algebra, and suggest some strategies for teachers.

Aim: This project was essentially about what it is that supports a school to become research-engaged. There were two dimensions to this investigation: (i) The aim of the specific research activity at school level was: To investigate the impact of rhyme and rhythm on the development of speaking and listening skills in Key Stage 1 (ii) Beyond the specific research at school level, the overarching aim was: To investigate the features of research engagement in the school which were significant in supporting and enabling the research activity.

Aim: To investigate teacher and pupil attitudes towards the use of the Internet in teaching and learning.

Aim: The main aim of the project was to explore how to establish practitioner research as an effective and sustainable form of continuing professional development both for participating researchers and, through their research work, for colleagues within the schools and network.

Aim: To plan an Early Years curriculum by improving the dialogue between Early Years practitioners and parents, by raising parental expectations and by finding out how and what young children learn at home.