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Just when we all thought we knew what frantic was, everything moved up a gear in the few weeks between Christmas and Easter and now we are all facing the run up to SATS and exams. To build on a poster on a meeting room door in a school in Lincolnshire where we're working with one of our three amazing groups of primary school heads on evidence based peer review this week - "Children are the priority, change is the reality, evidence helps us link the two". The gears CUREE has been pedalling through (fast) which I think will interest you came from three main sources:

Teacher Development Fund for learning through the arts

First we were working with the Paul Hamlyn Foundation to consult about and launch the pilot of its new Teacher Development Fund to support CPDL for embedding learning through the arts in the primary curriculum. This is going to take place across the four home nations so we met in Belfast, Cardiff, Edinburgh, London and Bristol - all in 2.5 weeks!